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INFORMATION

HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAXES 1

Hotel Occupancy Taxes

Registration

Tax Rates

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 1

Reporting Requirements

OPERATING LICENSING 3

Operating License Types

NON_STR
Bed and Breakfast	The use of an owner-occupied single-family residential structure to provide limited meal service and rooms for temporary lodging for overnight guests in return for compensation.
Boarding House Commercial	A building, other than a hotel, where lodging and meals are provided for more than six (6) unrelated persons in return for compensation.
Boarding House Residential	A building, other than a hotel, where lodging and meals are provided for more than siz (6) unrelated persons in return for compensation.
Hotel	A building or a part of a building, in which there are guest rooms, rooming units or apartments which may be rented on a daily basis and are used primarily for transient occupancy and for which desk service is provided. In addition, one or more of the following services may be provided: maid, telephone, bellboy, or furnishing of linen.
Motel	A building or a part of a building, in which there are guest rooms, rooming units or apartments which may be rented on a daily basis and are used primarily for transient occupancy and for which desk service is provided. In addition, one or more of the following services may be provided: maid, telephone, bellboy, or furnishing of linen.
Rooming House Commercial	A building, other than a hotel, where lodging for more than six (6) unrelated persons is provided without meals in return for compensation.
Rooming House Residential	A building, other than a hotel, where lodging for more than six (6) unrelated persons is provided without meals in return for compensation.

STR
Short Term Rental Type 1	(Owner-Occupied) Short-term rental primary structures are: (1) rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, (2) not part of a multifamily use, (3) an entire dwelling unit, and (4) recorded with Travis County Appraisal District (TCAD) as a homestead.
Short Term Rental Type 1-A	(Owner-Occupied) Short-term rental partial units: (1) must include the exclusive use of a sleeping room and shared use of a full bathroom, (2) the owner is generally present at the licensed short-term rental property for the duration of any short-term rental of a partial unit, (3) not more than one partial unit at the property is simultaneously rented for any period less than 30 consecutive days, and (4) limited to a single party of individuals, and (5) recorded with Travis County Appraisal District (TCAD) as a homestead.
Short Term Rental Type 1-Secondary	(Owner-Occupied) Short-term rental secondary structures are: (1) rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, (2) not part of a multifamily use, (3) associated with an owner-occupied principal residential unit, (4) an entire dwelling unit, and (5) recorded with Travis County Appraisal District (TCAD) as a homestead.
Short Term Rental Type 2 Commercial	(Non Owner-Occupied) Short-term rental structures: (1) may not be located on a lot that is within 1000 feet of a lot on which another short-term rental (Type 2) use is located and (2) are a permitted use in the following base districts: Central Business District (CBD); Downtown Mixed Use (DMU); Planned Unit Development (PUD); General-Retail Mixed Use (GR-MU); Commercial Services Mixed Use (CS-MU); Commercial Services Vertical Mixed Use (CS-V); and General Retail Vertical Mixed Use (GR-V).
Short Term Rental Type 3	Short-term rental multifamily use structures are: (1) rented for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, (2) part of a multifamily residential use, and (3) an entire dwellling unit.