Today, Jersey City Mayor, Steven Fulop, will introduce legislation to legalise the use of all short-term accommodation sites such as Airbnb and HomeAway, which could be approved as early as next month. “You can fight it all kinds of ways, but at the end of the day, it’s someone’s personal property, and it’s a service people want to use, so there is only so much you can do,” Ms. Osborne said. According to the New York Times: “In exchange for agreeing to let some of Jersey City’s 262,000 residents rent out a bedroom, or even their entire apartment on Airbnb, the company would charge users the same 6% hospitality tax currently levied on guests at the city’s dozen hotels. The city has estimated that it loses about $700,000 in revenue from these taxes each year.”
Today, Jersey City Mayor, Steven Fulop, will introduce legislation to legalise the use of all short-term accommodation sites such as Airbnb and HomeAway, which could be approved as early as next month. According to the New York Times: “In exchange for agreeing to let some of Jersey City’s 262,000 residents rent out a bedroom, or even their entire apartment on Airbnb, the company would charge users the same 6% hospitality tax currently levied on guests at the city’s dozen hotels. The city has estimated that it loses about $700,000 in revenue from these taxes each year.”