SNOW HILL – At least one elected official wants the county to explore the idea of issuing rental licenses to property owners opening their homes to tourists.
During a meeting Tuesday, Worcester County Commissioner Joe Mitrecic suggested the county consider the idea of issuing rental licenses. He said Ocean City’s attention to short-term rentals and the requisite licensing made him think it was also something Worcester County should research.
“In these times, where we’re looking to capitalize on some revenue due to our budget woes, this would be the time to look into this type of thing,” Mitrecic said.
For more than a year, officials in Ocean City have been monitoring the growing number of short-term vacation rentals available online through websites such as Airbnb and VRBO. They want to make sure the resort property owners offering the rentals have a business license and are paying the appropriate room tax.
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7 comments:
How about staying out of our lives and letting us alone!
This is nothing more than another potential revenue stream for these politicians!
FYI,
If the main purpose of a license or permit "fee" is to raise revenue for the government, then it's a disguised "tax" and that's illegal, as Ocean City learned the hard way some years ago.
This is the OC mentality coming out of this moron.
WHO are these Nazi's that think THEY need to know if you rent your house to someone for a week or two?
Oh. Right.
The cash gestapo.
These slimy losers would cut their own kid's throat for an extra five dollars.
They also live in mansions with 8-12 bedrooms and have THEIR family and friends come for a couple of weeks every year, too, but THEY write the rules, so......
More confirmation of Two Sets of Laws.
Keep cheering.
Our local politicians, always looking for something else to tax, giving them more to spend. Never looking for ways to curtail the cost of government spending, only every way to increase spending, on the backs of taxpayers. A brand new tax....they'll love it!
You think it's just LOCAL criminals, I mean, politicians??
Been renting my home for years and ZERO problems. Its others out there who have caused the issues and given City Hall another funding stream that does nothing for its citizens.
Can't catch MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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