Airbnb全球公共政策主管David Hantman表示，从2月15日，Airbnb将对美国加州圣何塞和阿姆斯特丹，荷兰的房主征税。两个星期后，芝加哥和华盛顿特区的房主都需要交税。
Airbnb表示，过去几年，它只在部分地区对房主收税，其他大部分地房主则无需交税。现在，Airbnb已经和当地立法者和监管者合作，让其营运政策和方式可以符合当地酒店税和住房法律的要求。
有报道指出，Airbnb迄今在旧金山和波特兰向房主收取了500万美元的税款。除了与阿姆斯特丹达成了新的协议，它正在与法国政府谈判类似的收税协议。
Airbnb’s been struggling with numerous legal issues for a while now, and one of the biggest complaints against the service is that hosts have been using it to set up illegal hotels to avoid paying taxes. These days, Airbnb’s trying to get on the good side of the law, so after getting rid of sketchy listings (in NYC, at least), it’s now collecting tourist taxes in more locations. The service has been doing just that in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon since last year, but now the list of locations has grown to include San Jose, California and Amsterdam in the Netherlands (starting this week, as well as Washington and Chicago starting on February 15.
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