Adding taxes to an experience or service

Here’s info about some of Airbnb’s tools to assist you in adding taxes to your experience or service. 

Add taxes to your experience or service

If you’re an experience or service host who has the obligation to collect and remit certain taxes on your bookings, you may be eligible to collect taxes directly from guests. With this feature, you can set the type of tax and the way you want to collect it (percentage per booking, price per booking, or price per person).

If we collect and remit taxes for your experience or service (default taxes)

If we already collect some taxes for you, you may be able to add more taxes through the custom tax feature. We’ll collect these taxes in addition to the taxes we automatically collect on your behalf. You can review the tax amounts collected by Airbnb.

This feature isn’t available under certain conditions and the type of taxes you can collect through this feature may not cover all of your needs.

Reviewing the kinds of Tax ID you may have

Tax registration number

Many jurisdictions issue a tax registration number, which is the unique number you were assigned by your local taxing jurisdiction. Depending on the jurisdiction, this may be a tax-specific registration number or a local business registration or account number. Your tax registration number will vary based on the specific tax you are collecting in addition to the jurisdiction.

How tax payouts work

Taxes you've added with this feature are calculated from your payout, but will be paid out separately. Your payout includes your experience or service price, minus the host service fee. You’re responsible for providing the tax amount you want to be collected; and, as always, you’re responsible for submitting, paying, and reporting all taxes related to your bookings to the relevant tax authorities. Learn more about your tax reporting and payouts.

How taxes affect your total price

Your total price will increase after adding new taxes. So if you previously included taxes in your experience or service price, you'll have to adjust your pricing after adding new pass-through taxes to keep your pricing the same.

Info we share with relevant tax authorities

Airbnb may disclose data and other information related to transactions and taxes to the relevant tax authority, such as your name, experience or service address, applicable tax ID numbers, prices, service fees, tax payout amounts, reservation dates, and transaction dates.