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Current as of March 08, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
A. The transient lodging classification is comprised of the business of operating, for occupancy by transients, a hotel or motel, including an inn, tourist home or house, dude ranch, resort, campground, studio or bachelor hotel, lodging house, rooming house, apartment house, dormitory, public or private club, mobile home or house trailer at a fixed location or other similar structure, and also including a space, lot or slab that is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by transients in a mobile home or house trailer furnished by them for such occupancy.
B. The transient lodging classification does not include:
1. Operating a convalescent home or facility, home for the aged, hospital, jail, military installation or fraternity or sorority house or operating any structure exclusively by an association, institution, governmental agency or corporation for religious, charitable or educational purposes, if no part of the net earnings of the association, corporation or other entity inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
2. A lease or rental of a mobile home or house trailer at a fixed location or any other similar structure, and also including a space, lot or slab that is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by transients in a mobile home or house trailer furnished by them for such occupancy for thirty or more consecutive days.
3. Leasing or renting four or fewer rooms of an owner-occupied residential home, together with furnishing no more than a breakfast meal, to transient lodgers at no more than a fifty percent average annual occupancy rate.
4. The activities of any online lodging marketplace, as defined in § 42-5076.
C. The tax base for the transient lodging classification is the gross proceeds of sales or gross income derived from the business, except that the tax base does not include:
1. The gross proceeds of sales or gross income derived from business activity that is properly included in another business classification under this article and that is taxable to the person engaged in that business classification, but the gross proceeds of sales or gross income to be deducted shall not exceed the consideration paid to the person conducting the activity.
2. The gross proceeds or gross income received by an online lodging operator, as defined in § 42-5076, from any online lodging transactions, as defined in § 42-5076, for which the online lodging operator has received documentation from a registered online lodging marketplace, as defined in § 42-5076, pursuant to § 42-5009, subsection P that the online lodging marketplace has remitted or will remit the applicable tax to the department pursuant to § 42-5014, subsection E.
D. For the purposes of this section, the tax base for the transient lodging classification does not include gross proceeds of sales or gross income derived from:
1. Transactions or activities that are not limited to transients and that would not be taxable if engaged in by a person not subject to tax under this article.
2. Transactions or activities that are not limited to transients and that would not be taxable if engaged in by a person subject to taxation under § 42-5062 or 42-5073 due to an exclusion, exemption or deduction.
3. Commissions paid to a person that is engaged in transient lodging business subject to taxation under this section by a person providing services or property to the customers of the person engaging in the transient lodging business.
E. The department shall separately account for revenues collected under the transient lodging classification for the purposes of § 42-5029, subsection D, paragraph 4, subdivision (b).
F. For the purposes of this section, “transient” means any person who either at the person's own expense or at the expense of another obtains lodging space or the use of lodging space on a daily or weekly basis, or on any other basis for less than thirty consecutive days.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Arizona Revised Statutes Title 42. Taxation § 42-5070. Transient lodging classification; definition - last updated March 08, 2022 | https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-42-taxation/az-rev-st-sect-42-5070/
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