Guides
- How to download your Airbnb earnings CSV — Where to find the Airbnb earnings / transaction history CSV, which date range to choose, and what the columns mean.
- Which Vrbo report to use for lodging tax — Vrbo's payout summary and stay tax reports: what they contain and how to export them for a quarterly lodging-tax worksheet.
- How to export reservations from the Booking.com extranet — Download your Booking.com reservations list (Excel/CSV) for a lodging-tax worksheet, and what to check before reporting.
- Lodging tax: report by stay date, not payout date — Why most occupancy-tax returns are based on when guests stayed, and how to handle stays that cross a month or quarter end.
- Does Airbnb collect occupancy tax for me? — How to tell from your Airbnb CSV whether Airbnb collected and remitted lodging tax for a stay, or passed it to you to remit.
- Long-stay exemptions for short-term rental tax — Most lodging taxes exempt stays over a set number of nights. How the threshold works and how Lodgetally applies it.
Reports
- Airbnb occupancy tax report
- Vrbo lodging tax report
- Booking.com reservations to a tax worksheet
- Short-term rental tax calculator
- Airbnb earnings by month or quarter
How-tos & comparisons
- A MyLodgeTax alternative for hosts who file their own lodging tax — Already registered and filing your own occupancy tax? Build the numbers for each return from your Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com export in minutes, for a fraction of a full-service filing fee.
- An Airbnb occupancy tax spreadsheet, filled in for you — Instead of copying reservations into a lodging-tax spreadsheet template, drop your Airbnb earnings CSV and get the monthly or quarterly totals your return asks for, with every stay listed.
- How to calculate occupancy tax on a short-term rental — Start from gross receipts, remove exempt stays and stays the platform already taxed, apply your rate. A worked example, the common traps, and how to get the numbers from your booking exports.
- Turn your Airbnb earnings CSV into a clean Excel report — Airbnb's earnings CSV mixes payouts, reservations, adjustments and resolution lines. Turn it into a tidy table per stay plus monthly or quarterly totals per listing, in your browser.
- Combine Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com income in one report — Hosts on several platforms need one total per period for lodging tax and income tax. Merge the exports from each platform into one worksheet, with duplicates removed and remitted stays split out.
- Short-term rental lodging tax return checklist — Before you file a monthly or quarterly occupancy tax return for your rental: the numbers you need, where they come from in your Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com exports, and what to keep on file.