str market mapShort-term rental owners and managers face a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction lodging tax obligation where registration, rate calculation, filing deadlines, and remittance vary by city, county, and state, creating significant manual compliance risk.
Avalara MyLodgeTax is the STR-focused lodging tax compliance product within Avalara, a global tax compliance software company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, serving businesses of all sizes with automated indirect tax management.
MyLodgeTax automates the lodging tax lifecycle for short-term rental operators: it handles initial property registration with state and local authorities, calculates jurisdiction-specific occupancy tax rates from Avalara's continuously updated rate database, prepares and files returns, and remits payments on the operator's behalf. The platform integrates by API with hospitality marketplaces and PMS platforms, including connections to Expedia, Booking.com, and Agoda, and a self-serve rate-lookup tool provides address-level lodging tax estimates.
Individual STR hosts, vacation rental property managers, and larger hospitality operators in the US that need to stay current with multi-jurisdiction lodging tax requirements without manual tracking of rate changes, filing calendars, and remittance.
Avalara disclosed that it had confidentially filed for a US initial public offering. Vista Equity Partners took Avalara private in 2022 in a deal valuing it at 8.4 billion dollars including debt. The Reuters report covers Avalara's tax software business generally and does not mention MyLodgeTax; we list it here because MyLodgeTax is the lodging tax product short-term rental hosts use.
Event date: 2025-07-21 · Summary published: 2026-08-20 · Source: Reuters (original report)
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