by Greg Larry glarry@times-news.com and originally published on times-news.com
CUMBERLAND — Allegany County is making preparations to have vacation rental companies add the county’s accommodation tax to their billing process.
The Allegany County Board of Commissioners discussed the effort to collect the 7% hotel-motel tax from online platforms at its Thursday meeting.
The number of rental units available locally through Airbnb, Vrbo, Evolve and others has increased sharply since the coronavirus pandemic subsided. In 2019, just before the pandemic erupted in the U.S., there were under 40 vacation rental units in the county. That number has increased to nearly 180 today.
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