Colorado towns cracking down on rental owners who don't collect and pay sales tax.

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Cracking down on vacation-rental tax cheats | SummitDaily.com

.............From Breckenridge to Park City, Utah, western mountain towns are moving forward with plans to hunt down illegal vacation rental owners through their online advertisements.

Ski towns like these estimate they may be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales tax revenue through non-compliant owners of short-term rental properties.

In response, the Colorado Association of Ski Towns (CAST) has contracted Virginia-based Eye Street Solutions, which has developed a software program that crawls the Internet in search of vacation rental advertisements. The software program cross-references the information gathered from the Internet with existing databases of short-term rental properties..........

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I'm shocked it took this long and expect other states to start doing this if they haven't been. Way to many owners just renting for low price to make some money or help pay their maintenance fee's and never paying the taxes.

I hope they go after everyone of them because there are others like us that have had taxes paid from our rentals over the years. Just maybe this hassle for them will stop some of these rentals and improve the exchanges again.



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