The City of Bonavista has taken a new approach to dealing with airbnb hosts who represent unfair competition for hotels and bread-and-breakfast ins because they don't pay business taxes. They cut your sewer and water lines.
Bonavista cuts off services for Airbnb operators with unpaid business tax bills.
"We have gone to some pretty serious measures to collect. We have literally dug up driveways and turned off water (and) sewer service until the bill is paid, cutting them off completely from all municipal services.
-- Mayor John Norman
If people can't even drive their car onto your property, take a shower, use the toilet, you're pretty motivated to pony up.
The mayor said the taxation method has been successful, but he acknowledges not all Airbnb owners are pleased.
"I don't think some are happy about it, but it is what it is."
This is a pretty effective fix to unfair competition by airbnb hosts. The next question is, how can we apply the same thinking to uber and lyft?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:53PM
fuck you, you suck ass whore. as soon as you move and do all the work to build the place up, some leach piece of shit moves in and starts "improving things". just look at alaska. counties with no property tax and canadian and american state socialist scum moving in and running up the taxes everywhere. the small entrepreneur was there first. the parasite is an invader who should be run out of town at first sight or worse. too bad people are too dumb and fall for these professional liars.