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03.31.2016 Business

Hotel, motel owners push for fairer share of tourism tax

The Suffolk County Comptroller’s Office has a three-person enforcement unit that’s going after businesses, including short-term rentals, that may be avoiding paying the county’s three-percent hotel/motel tax. Since the group...

03.03.2016 Business

Suffolk Comptroller to discuss hotel-motel tax in Riverhead

Months after Suffolk County began targeting short-term rental owners, county Comptroller John Kennedy is expected to explain how the hotel-motel tax is enforced at an upcoming meeting in Riverhead.

11.19.2015 Government

County starts collecting ‘hotel tax’ from short-term rental landlords

Suffolk County has begun to crack down on short-term rental owners who list their properties online and are now requiring them to collect and remit a hotel-motel tax from...

11.19.2015 Editorials

Editorial: Don’t collect taxes you never asked for in the first place

In July, the Suffolk County Comptroller’s office released an audit showing that, due to low staffing levels, the county treasurer did not adequately monitor the county’s hotel-motel tax program...

10.30.2015 Government

County officials hoping to ‘level playing field’ with hotel-motel tax

Officials at the county level are exploring various strategies to collect a 3 percent occupancy tax from tourists who rent private homes for brief periods through websites such as...

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