Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online
&gt; One reason that short-term rentals have been cheaper than hotels is because hotels had to collect and pay sales tax while Airbnb didn’t.<p>Seems like this isn’t a new tax from out of nowhere to disadvantage Airbnb but rather a policy designed to bring Airbnb in line with their peers.<p>It reads like Airbnb was put at an artificial advantage as compared to hotels because hotels had to charge sales tax. Now everyone does. Seems fair to me. What seems unfair is that they weren’t subject to this the whole time. Honestly surprised it’s not retroactive.