Airbnb, city of Boulder work out deal for short-term rental tax payments

BOULDER – Online vacation-rental platform Airbnb has worked out a deal with the city of Boulder through which the company will collect a 7.5 percent short-term rental tax on behalf of its hosts and remit the tax collected to the city.

The deal is similar to arrangements that Airbnb has with some 200 other municipalities around the world that are aimed at streamlining the rental process for property owners.

The agreement between Boulder and Airbnb is logistical in nature and includes no financial arrangement between the two.

“It’s an efficiency issue from the city’s perspective,”…