Lodging tax: report by stay date, not payout date

Stay date vs payout date

Platforms pay hosts a day or so after check-in (or monthly for long stays), so totals by payout date drift from totals by stay date at every period boundary. Many tax offices ask for receipts by the date of the stay; Lodgetally defaults to check-in date.

Stays that cross a month end

Choose Nights in each month to split a stay's receipts across months in proportion to its nights — useful when your return is monthly. Amounts are split to the cent so totals still match.

Long stays

Airbnb splits stays of about a month or more into monthly rows. Lodgetally keeps them as one reservation for the long-stay exemption, while dating each row by its own start date.

Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Platform menus and tax rules change — confirm with the platform's help center and your tax office. Not tax advice.