Airbnb Taxes for HostsWhat a host can hand over

The download

A payout export is the spine. It should show nights, gross, fees, adjustments, and any tax column the platform printed. A screenshot of the last deposit is a clue. It is not the spine, because the deposit is what was left after everyone else took a cut.

If you have more than one platform, each export stays whole. Merging them into one spreadsheet before we see the originals hides the column that matters.

The night calendar and the city filing

Mark the nights you slept there, the nights a relative had the place, and the nights a guest paid. The download will not do that marking for you.

If a city sent a letter, put the letter in the stack unopened-or-opened, either way, with the envelope. The account number and the period are the point. We do not need a speech about whether the tax feels fair.

The books under the listing

A month is closed when the bank matches and the odd deposits have a name. Platform payouts often land in a batch that does not equal any single stay. The close names that batch. It does not force the batch to equal one guest.

A card you also use for groceries is the usual mess. Split the listing charges from the personal ones before the return, or the return will do it badly in March.

What this shop will not sign

We will not sign an audit, a review, or a compilation. If a lender asked for one of those words, the request goes to a firm allowed to sign it. The return and the statements can still be prepared here, stopping before any opinion a lender would rely on.

We will not run payday. Payroll sits in this stack only when a cleaner is on payroll. If you pay a cleaner as an employee, we can help you set the account up with a provider you operate. You and that provider keep running payday after the account is open.

We will not appear at an exam. We can arrange the export, the calendar, and the letter in the order a notice lists them.

Say which papers you already have