Airbnb Inc. is in talks with more than 100 cities about ways to collect taxes, following tactics that have helped it appease regulators in cities like Amsterdam and Paris, Bloomberg reports.
“We’re actively trying to engage with cities — we’ve put out a pledge indicating our willingness to work with cities on things like taxes and transparency,” the San Francisco-based company’s Chief Technology Officer, Nathan Blecharczyk, said in Amsterdam at a startup conference. “New policies that have been passed have been overall favorable to home sharing.”
Airbnb has agreements to automatically collect tax on behalf of 30 cities upon client payment and the municipality gets a lump sum check at the end of the month, Blecharczyk said. Last year, 5.5 million euros ($6.1 million) were collected in Amsterdam for example, he said. There’s a similar deal in Paris, one of Airbnb’s biggest markets.
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