Lodging Tax

Lodging tax, also called occupancy, hotel or transient tax, is what a town, county or state charges on a short stay. On Kabora, you set the rate, and Kabora adds it to the guest's bill.

Setting the Rate

Each place carries its own rate, on its Pricing page under Taxes, because towns and counties differ. Settings → Lodging tax lists every place's rate side by side, so a wrong one stands out, and holds the default that new places start with. Changing the default never changes a rate you have already set.

What the Tax Is Charged On

The tax applies to every booking a guest pays through Kabora, on the marketplace or on your own booking site. The rate applies to the nights, after any stay discount, plus the cleaning, linens, extra-guest and pet fees.

The guest sees it as its own Taxes line at checkout and on their receipt. Each booking keeps the rate and the amount it was charged, so changing a rate never rewrites a past booking.

A change to a booking is the one exception. When a booking's dates or guests change, the whole stay is priced again, and its tax is charged at today's rate, the nights already booked included. If the rate has changed since the booking, the change says so before anybody agrees to it, and shows how much of the difference is the new rate.

Long Stays

Many places stop charging lodging tax once a stay is long enough, often 30 nights and sometimes 90. On the website, set this on the place's Pricing page → Taxes → No tax on long stays.

A stay of that many nights or more then carries no tax, and its booking keeps a rate of 0. Left empty, every stay is taxed.

Filing the Tax

The tax is paid to you with the stay. Kabora's fee is calculated on the stay and its fees, never on the tax. Kabora does not send lodging tax to any government: registering and paying it is yours. Metrics → Taxes lists what you collected, stay by stay, for any period, and downloads as a spreadsheet for your return.

Current Limits

Each place carries one percentage. You cannot yet set a flat amount per night or per guest, or a second tax on the same place.