like Pittsburgh<\/a>, have expressed a need to clamp down due to injuries and even deaths resulting from parties at short-term properties.<\/p>\n\u201cThis levels the playing field,\u201d Novosad said. \u201cShort-term [properties are at an] advantage over [hotel] properties, charging and remitting taxes. This also makes sure that city staff know where short-term rentals are. There\u2019s been a couple of cities out there where folks stayed at a short-term rental that may have not been registered with the city and accidents had happened.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cWe recognise that there are implications that could potentially arise over time because they\u2019ve come up in other places. One of the benefits of us being late in the game adopting something like this is we are able to observe challenges other people face in what happens over time. One of the ones that\u2019s become common is that in certain areas where having an Airbnb has become common, you limit it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Highlights:<\/p>\n
Victoria, Texas is considering a $25 annual tax on short-term rentals to match hotel taxes, plus a registry and safety inspections.<\/p>\n
STRs in Victoria have grown from 10 to 40 since 2017, but the city currently does not collect local tax on them.<\/p>\n
Tourism director Joel Novosad said the proposal levels the playing field with hotels and improves safety oversight, citing incidents at unregistered STRs elsewhere.<\/p>\n
He noted Victoria benefits from being \u201clate in the game\u201d by learning from other cities\u2019 struggles with STR density and regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading Time: 2 minutes US: The city council of Victoria, Texas, is mulling a proposal to require privately-owned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17002,2445,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-242046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-legislation","9":"tag-tax","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}