Short-Term Rental & Hospitality: AI for STR Operatorsexpert · ~210 min

The Filing You Can Defend — an Audit-Ready Lodging-Tax Close for Every Property

Have you ever wondered whether the taxes your booking platform collects are actually all the taxes your city, county, and state expect from you — and whether you could prove your numbers to an auditor two years from now?

Lodging tax is the one part of short-term-rental operations where being roughly right is the same as being wrong, because the penalty arrives with interest and lands on the operator, not the platform. This project turns that anxiety into a repeatable monthly close with a cited rate card, a stay-level backup schedule, and a sealed filing packet you can hand to a CPA or an auditor without re-deriving anything.

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What you'll do

A local, auditable lodging-tax close for your whole portfolio: a cited rate card where every jurisdiction's rate, taxable base, exemption threshold, filing frequency, and platform-collection status carries a source URL and the date you checked it; a stay-level tax ledger computed in integer cents with a declared rounding policy; a reconciliation report that tells you exactly where the tax your platforms collected differs from what your rate card expects; a sealed filing packet per jurisdiction per period (return worksheet, stay-level backup schedule, sources page, and a SHA-256 manifest) that a CPA can review and an auditor can verify; a deadline and permit-renewal agenda that runs unattended; and a restatement guard that refuses to silently rewrite a period you have already filed.