Airbnb’s tax collection and remittance in Tennessee

Airbnb has released data on its collection and remittance of sales and local occupancy taxes in the state of Tennessee. In 2022, we collected over $120 million in sales and occupancy taxes, marking an increase of over 270 percent or nearly $90 million from pre-pandemic travel in 2019¹. This has resulted in over $290 million in taxes in the state being collected and remitted on behalf of Hosts since 2016².

Airbnb began collecting state and local sales taxes on behalf of Hosts in Tennessee in 2018, collecting nearly $219 million through 2022³. Then in 2021, we championed legislation at the state level to secure authorization to collect and remit local lodging taxes across the Volunteer State.

Today, taxes collected and remitted by Airbnb are important sources of recurring revenue for communities across Tennessee. We collect and remit state and local sales taxes as well as  local transient room taxes. Last year in Davidson County, we collected and remitted approximately $17 million in local occupancy taxes and nearly $46 million in state, local sales, and occupancy taxes in the county combined⁴. 

In the US, Airbnb collected and remitted more than $1.9 billion in tourism taxes in 2022, in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia – marking an increase of approximately 27 percent from 2021. Prior to 2014, jurisdictions did not have an efficient way to receive these funds from travel booked on short-term rental platforms. We 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, we have collected and remitted over $7 billion in taxes on behalf of our Hosts globally.