Anna Maria, FL short-term rental registration

What Anna Maria asks of you

• A vacation rental licence is valid for one year from the date it is issued.^[6]

• The renewal application is due no later than sixty days before the current licence expires, which makes the calendar the part owners most often get wrong.^[6]

• The application requires a copy of the current and active certificate of registration with the Florida Department of Revenue.^[6]

• It also requires evidence of a current and active account with the Manatee County Tax Collector, which is the office that collects the county tourist development tax.^[6]

• Chapter 108 defines a vacation rental as any condominium or cooperative unit, or any single-family, two-family, three-family or four-family dwelling, that is also a transient public lodging establishment.^[7]

What Florida asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• Florida licenses vacation rentals itself. A house, townhouse or unit in a building of four units or fewer is licensed as a dwelling, a unit in a condominium or cooperative as a condominium, and the licence costs $150 plus $10 per rental unit plus a $10 hospitality education fee.^[2]

• A city cannot ban vacation rentals, nor regulate how long or how often you rent, unless its ordinance was already on the books on June 1, 2011. Ordinances adopted before that date survive untouched, which is why two neighbouring Florida towns can sit at opposite ends of the scale.^[1]

• State sales tax is due on every rental of six months or less. A bona fide written lease for more than six months of continuous residence is exempt, and so is the seventh month onward once a guest has stayed and paid for six.^[3]