Hospitable now remits Las Vegas, Chicago and Denver lodging taxes, and the change is backdated

Hospitable has published a catch-up list of US lodging taxes it now collects and remits on behalf of hosts, covering registrations completed between April and June 2026. The announcement landed this month, which means the remittance has in several cases been running for months before hosts were told.

It applies to Direct Premium users, to Vrbo Partner Connection users, and to upsells bought through Hospitable. It does not change anything on Airbnb or Booking.com bookings, where the platform already remits in most of these jurisdictions.

What was added

Alaska: Anchorage Municipality room tax, Juneau occupancy tax and local sales tax.

California: Los Angeles city transient occupancy tax.

Colorado: Breckenridge local sales tax and public accommodations tax, Denver city lodger's tax and the lodger's tourism improvement district tax.

District of Columbia: sales tax on hotels.

Georgia: Chattahoochee Hills hotel and motel occupancy tax.

Illinois: Chicago city hotel accommodations tax and the vacation rental surcharge.

Nevada: combined transient occupancy tax for Clark County, Henderson and Las Vegas.

North Carolina: Watauga County occupancy tax.

Puerto Rico: room tax.

Texas: Galveston hotel occupancy tax.

West Virginia: Pocahontas County hotel occupancy tax.

That is nine states plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico, weighted heavily toward the big city-break and ski markets.

The bit that needs checking, not celebrating

Hospitable is explicit that each tax may have a different date from which it began retaining and remitting. There is no single cutover.

That creates a real reconciliation job. If you operate in Las Vegas, Chicago, Denver or Los Angeles and you have been filing these taxes yourself through the spring and summer, there is a period where both you and Hospitable may have paid. Equally, if you assumed Hospitable had you covered earlier than it did, there is a period you still owe.

Two places to look. Each reservation's financial description says which taxes were charged and whether they were passed through to you. And Metrics, then Exports, then Taxes gives a breakdown of what was remitted on your behalf versus what came to you as pass-through. Pull that for April onward for any affected property before your next filing.

Anything not on the list stays pass-through. Hospitable collects it and hands it to you, and remitting it remains your responsibility. That has not changed, and the company restates it plainly.

On Vrbo

Hospitable acknowledges that tax remittance on Vrbo Partner Connection has been a sore point with users, and says it is working on a dashboard showing the jurisdictions it is attempting to register in.

Useful if it ships. Until it does, there is no way to see what is in the pipeline, so a host in an unlisted market still cannot tell whether to keep their own registration open or wait. If you are in that position, keep the registration.

Where this fits

Automated lodging tax remittance has become table stakes for the direct booking tier of every short-term rental platform, and the competitive question is no longer whether a vendor does it but how many jurisdictions it has actually registered in. Registration is slow, manual, and done one authority at a time, which is why these announcements arrive as backdated lists rather than launches.

For operators the practical rule holds whatever your platform promises: the jurisdiction holds you responsible, not your software. Check the export, keep the evidence.