Airbnb releases 2021 Tennessee Tax Report
Key Takeaways
- $92 million has been collected and remitted to state and local governments in 2021

Key Takeaways
- $92 million has been collected and remitted to state and local governments in 2021
Airbnb has released new data on its collection and remittance of sales and local occupancy taxes in the state of Tennessee. Last year, in addition to the state’s sales taxes, Airbnb began collecting local occupancy taxes on behalf of Hosts in jurisdictions across the state. This resulted in over $92 million being collected and remitted to the State of Tennessee’s Department of Revenue, an increase of approximately 185 percent over 2019 – an average travel year.
In the US, we collected and remitted more than $1.5 billion in tourism taxes in 2021, in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico – an 87 percent increase over 2019. Prior to 2014, jurisdictions did not have an efficient way to receive these funds from travel booked on short-term rental platforms. Airbnb changed that by forming tax collection agreements with San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon that year and signaling to the world that the company wanted to collect and remit tourism taxes and work with local governments. Since then, and prior to the legislation we helped champion in Tennessee in 2020, we worked with cities like Knoxville and Memphis to collect and remit the local occupancy tax on behalf of our Hosts.
Today, taxes collected and remitted by Airbnb are key revenue-generating mechanisms for communities across Tennessee. Below is a breakdown of the approximate tax collection figures for Tennessee counties in 2021:
COUNTY | Tax Revenue from Airbnb |
Anderson | $210,000 |
Bedford | $70,000 |
Benton | $10,000 |
Bledsoe | $40,000 |
Blount | $1,400,000 |
Bradley | $230,000 |
Campbell | $410,000 |
Cannon | $10,000 |
Carroll | $20,000 |
Carter | $310,000 |
Cheatham | $340,000 |
Chester | $20,000 |
Claiborne | $80,000 |
Clay | $40,000 |
Cocke | $550,000 |
Coffee | $70,000 |
Cumberland | $180,000 |
Davidson | $34,000,000 |
Decatur | $20,000 |
DeKalb | $300,000 |
Dickson | $70,000 |
Dyer | $10,000 |
Fentess | $30,000 |
Franklin | $410,000 |
Gibson | $20,000 |
Giles | $30,000 |
Grainger | $60,000 |
Greene | $60,000 |
Grundy | $290,000 |
Hamblen | $20,000 |
Hamilton | $3,500,000 |
Hancock | $10,000 |
Hardin | $120,000 |
Hawkins | $30,000 |
Henderson | $30,000 |
Henry | $90,000 |
Hickman | $40,000 |
Humphreys | $80,000 |
Jackson | $40,000 |
Jefferson | $570,000 |
Johnson | $260,000 |
Knox | $2,300,000 |
Lawrence | $50,000 |
Lewis | $10,000 |
Lincoln | $40,000 |
Loudon | $130,000 |
Madison | $120,000 |
Marion | $300,000 |
Marshall | $30,000 |
Maury | $270,000 |
McMinn | $80,000 |
McNairy | $10,000 |
Meigs | $80,000 |
Monroe | $200,000 |
Montgomery | $500,000 |
Moore | $30,000 |
Morgan | $50,000 |
Obion | $10,000 |
Overton | $50,000 |
Perry | $10,000 |
Pickett | $50,000 |
Polk | $170,000 |
Putnam | $320,000 |
Rhea | $120,000 |
Roane | $110,000 |
Robertson | $110,000 |
Rutherford | $710,000 |
Scott | $80,000 |
Sequatchie | $60,000 |
Sevier | $33,000,000 |
Shelby | $4,000,000 |
Smith | $40,000 |
Stewart | $50,000 |
Sullivan | $300,000 |
Sumner | $460,000 |
Tipton | $10,000 |
Trousdale | $10,000 |
Unicoi | $90,000 |
Union | $100,000 |
Van Buren | $80,000 |
Warren | $70,000 |
Washington | $330,000 |
Wayne | $20,000 |
Williamson | $20,000 |
Wilson | $100,000 |