Update to New STR Rules in San Antonio

[Sherylyn Holden]

As a reminder, the San Antonio City Council approved new STR rules (you can see my post regarding this here!). One of those rules required the STR platforms to remit the San Antonio HOT tax directly rather than having the operators/hosts remit and pay that.

UPDATE: The Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) compliance timeline has been moved to now start on February 1, 2025 (this was previously set to start in October)

Any short term rental advertised through a platform remitting the hotel occupancy tax to the State of Texas (such as Airbnb or VRBO) will begin paying the San Antonio HOT directly to the city monthly through the platforms. If your short term rental is advertised on a platform not doing this, then the operator must continue to report and pay HOT directly to the city every month. All operators must still file a monthly tax report through Avenu. (FAQ sheet can be found here)

San Antonio short term rental rules are changing for all us hosts so I hope this helps! 

The table below further summarizes this new timeline of the operator’s responsibility to report and pay HOT for the upcoming months: