Anna Maria, FL short-term rental license

What Anna Maria asks of you

• A vacation rental license 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 license 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 dwelling license covers houses, townhouses and buildings of up to four units. A condominium or cooperative unit takes a condominium license instead. The license costs $150 plus $10 per rental unit, plus a $10 hospitality education fee.^[2]

• No Florida city may ban vacation rentals. It may not set how long or how often you rent either. The one exception is a local ordinance already in force on June 1, 2011, which still applies.^[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. So is the seventh month onward once a guest has stayed and paid for six.^[3]