On: The Hotel Industry’s Plan to Combat Airbnb

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Note that the hotel industry lobbied against collecting business taxes from AirBnB hosts, afraid that paying taxes indicates legitimacy.

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Which is why airbnb is all too happy to help states fill revenue shortfalls with taxes that come out of their pockets:

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/04/17/...

"By next month, Airbnb will have similar agreements with 250 jurisdictions in the United States, including 20 states."