Tag: Airbnb
Orange Beach City Council bans short-term residential rentals
Orange Beach City Council members have voted to pass an ordinance that will ban short-term rentals in residential areas of the city.
The council met Tuesday evening...
Alabamians reap benefits of Airbnb
By sharing their homes with beach goers, tourists, and college football fans, Alabamians made over $16 million in 2017 using the popular home-sharing app Airbnb.
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Mountain Brook sets limit to short-term rentals like Airbnb, VRBO
In the absence of a statewide strategy to regulate short-term housing rentals, the Mountain Brook City Council approved an ordinance last week to set...
Daniel Sutter: Technology, sharing, and disaster assistance
Hurricane Harvey struck Texas last weekend with winds of 130 mph and then stalled, dumping feet of rain and causing catastrophic flooding. Thousands of...
Daniel Sutter: The new power of sharing
Economic growth often involves new factories manufacturing more goods for us. But new forms of economic activity also contribute to prosperity. Ongoing innovations in...
Airbnb to collect, pay taxes on behalf of Alabama hosts
In a news release this week, the Alabama Department of Revenue (ADOR) announced that Airbnb will begin collecting remitting taxes for the department on its host...
GOP 2016 candidate Marco Rubio criticizes government regulation of Internet-based on-demand...
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is warning of too much government meddling with Internet-based "on-demand companies."
Speaking Tuesday in New York, the Florida senator praised...
