The "one host, one home" deal is a much better way to deal with the downsides of Airbnb: <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/06/19/toronto-to-move-forward-with-proposed-rules-on-airbnb-style-rentals.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/06/19/toronto-to...</a>
A concern I haven't seen raised as much with AirBnb is the erosion of communities. It is ironic that tourists wish to visit cities for their culture (Berlin, Amsterdam etc.) but that by removing housing stock, there will be fewer and fewer locals left, for example in Edinburgh's grassmarket, entire tenements are now short term lets. Cities then just become pretty museums.
They just sent an email to their customers in Québec and they specify they will not share reservation and owner details to the government, only a summary per region per month.<p>So the is no extra power to Revenu Québec to find out you don't report all your earnings.<p>The fact they sent (french) :<p>Partagerez-vous mes informations personnelles lors du versement de la taxe ?
Non. Nous remplirons une déclaration fiscale par région, qui indiquera le montant total des revenus issus de l'ensemble des réservations Airbnb effectuées dans la zone en question. Autrement dit, tous les hôtes seront représentés par un même montant, et nous ne fournirons pas vos informations personnelles sur la déclaration.
Background: I am the founder of the rental largest housing site in NL (Kamernet.nl)<p>I believe that Spain (Barcelona, Ibiza) already have rules in place that limit the possibility of renting out accommodations and require a local license.<p>The first step for any locale is to establish policy and rules in this "new normal" situation where renting out property (and leveraging tourism) has become very easy and painless. Rules that are enforceable, with sanctions strong enough to limit abuse.<p>Next, the local governments should be in their right to ask for verifiable users of the platform, but equally of people who advertise in paper media. At the end of the day, a public db with some form of API should be set up by the local government. This db is freely (as in beer) accessible to all housing platforms to check that OAuth(SSN+property id+number of beds) indeed has a permit. Even a calendar could be added (in Amsterdam, the limit is 60 nights per year per house or host / not sure).<p>?
They did the same with Uber <a href="https://www.uber.com/en-CA/drive/montreal/get-started/tax-registration/" rel="nofollow">https://www.uber.com/en-CA/drive/montreal/get-started/tax-re...</a>
The most interesting thing for me will be that we be that the governement (and maybe us too) will be able to know much more precisely how much Airbnb renting is going on in the province and possibly where & when too.
It's great to see local and state government coming to a sensible deal with AirBnB and also with Uber.<p>It should be a model for how to handle these things. Some light oversight and some tax, but not caving in to extant rent seekers like taxi plate owners and hotel chain owners.
This is simply great!<p>It means Air BnB can scale even more, take savvy incorporated entrepreneurs in the field for example. They can even pretend to be a private home holders.. Now it is all in the books, reported and regulated.
Why is Quebec always doing things differently?<p>- Airbnb and Uber hostility<p>- Dairy cartel<p>- Language police<p>- World Nomads (travel insurance) exclusion<p>- Contests exclusion<p>- Worst ER wait times<p>- ...