Miami Herald – Surfside is the first South Florida town to collect taxes from Airbnb

January 16, 2017
As part of a 2017 goal to secure tax agreements across the state of Florida, home-sharing platform Airbnb has signed its first accord in South Florida. Airbnb announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with the town of Surfside to collect the municipality’s 4 percent resort tax from local hosts and remit that money back to the town. The resort tax would go back into stimulating the family-friendly beach town’s local tourist economy…
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