The town of Emerald Isle is currently navigating new vacation rental permit proposals as North Carolina state legislators move to standardize rules for short-term rentals.

Rivera, would have taxed empty second (or third, fourth, etc.) homes and short-term rental homes $8,000 annually.

The Rules Committee declined to advance to the full council a proposal by Councilmember Elo-Rivera to tax up to 11,000 ’empty ...

Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera proposed the tax on second homes and vacation rentals as a way, he argued, to generate revenue ...

Tears fell, tempers flared and accusations about paid opposition flew in San Diego's debate about taxing second homes and vacation rentals.

A controversial plan to impose an annual tax of as much as $12,000 on thousands of San Diego vacation homes is dead for now, ...

Currently, there are 5,115 empty homes in the city and 5,741 vacation rentals — 45% of which are in La Jolla, downtown, and ...

The committee spent hours on the short-term vacation rental tax proposal before voting 3-2 to kill a scaled-back version of ...

Will a new tax on second homes help solve San Diego's housing crisis or hurt locals like Martha? Council vote could decide if ...

The Hawaii governor has announced the removal of 10,000 vacation rentals to provide more housing for locals. Tourism policy ...

To ease the fiscal burden, states including Montana and Vermont have approved or considered higher taxes on second-home owners. Last year, Rhode Island approved what’s been dubbed the “Taylor Swift ...

San Diego City Council is considering a proposal to tax vacation rentals up to $12,000 a year to help balance the city’s ...