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For years, municipal leaders, hoteliers and even some short-term rental owners have been begging for equal taxation. Their calls to stop letting house rentals listed through Airbnb, VRBO and other hosting platforms skirt the 5% state hotel tax have gone unanswered at the Rhode Island State House. Until now. Gov. Dan McKee in an April […] The post Governor and municipal leaders both want more money from short-term house rentals. Who gets it? appeared first on Rhode Island Current.

For years, municipal leaders, hoteliers and even some short-term rental owners have been begging for equal taxation. Their calls to stop letting house rentals listed through Airbnb, VRBO and other hosting platforms skirt the 5% state hotel tax have gone unanswered at the Rhode Island State House. Until now. Gov. Dan McKee in an April […] The post Governor and municipal leaders both want more money from short-term house rentals. Who gets it? appeared first on Rhode Island Current.

“It wouldn’t be paid for by taxpayers — it would be paid for by the slobs that threw those bottles out in the first place,” said Bill McCusker, president of Friends of the Saugatucket.

A formal ask hasn't yet been made, but House Speaker Shekarchi's office confirmed the developer said they need more money.

It was early January 2017 when Peter Neronha says he got an invite to lunch from Leo Skenyon, chief of staff and right-hand man to the then-most powerful