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Two years after introducing a municipal accommodation (MAT) tax levy of four per cent upon short-term accommodation businesses (STA) in the city, Belleville is having difficulty collecting from some owners who are refusing outright to comply, say city officials.
While hotels and some bed and breakfast proprietors are remitting their so-called MAT, others – most notably in the Airbnb industry are declining to pay the tax which is being deemed as lost revenue to city coffers and putting the municipality at a disadvantage when funding tourism advertising campaigns to compete against other tourism destinations.
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