Gemma and Nick Warren bought an upstate NY cabin for $85,000 in 2021. It had no bathroom or heating. Over three months, they renovated the cabin and added a deck, a new kitchen, and bespoke furniture. The cabin, which is available to book on Airbnb, is by a creek and decorated with string lights. In […]
An Australian court has ordered Airbnb to pay a 15 million Australian dollar (£7.9 million) fine, and the accommodation rental company could pay as much again in compensating customers who had been unaware they were being charged in US rather than Australian dollars. Airbnb admitted making false or misleading representations to Australian users between January […]
Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay €576 million to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes in Italy but said it will not try to recover the money from its hosts. In November, Italian prosecutors said AirBnb owed about €779 million in short-term rental taxes it had failed to pay on behalf of […]