If you are connected to Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, or HomeAway/VRBO via the channel manager, taxes and fees are exported in a specific way. In the following sections, you will learn how to check whether a fee or tax is synchronized with an OTA, how taxes are calculated, and how fees and taxes are displayed in OTA bookings.
Read about:
- Fees and taxes export
- How taxes and fees are calculated in Airbnb
- How taxes and fees are calculated in Booking.com
- How taxes and fees are calculated in Expedia
- How taxes and fees are calculated in HomeAway/VRBO
- Linked resources
Fees and taxes export
Fees and taxes are exported to Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo regardless of your synchronization type (partial sync or full sync). For Expedia, fees and taxes are not sent from Lodgify.
The export of taxes to Airbnb depends on your specific Airbnb tax collection scenario.
💡 Note: Tax remittance is managed by the respective OTAs. Please refer to their support channels for further information.
To check which fees and taxes are sent to your connected OTAs:
- Go to your left-hand menu and select Rentals.
- Select the rental for which you want to review the fee or tax channel-sending information, then select Pricing.
- Click the fee or tax you want to verify.
You will see your website logo behind the Lodgify logo, along with the logos of the different OTAs: - If there is an arrow, it means the item is sent without any restrictions.
- If there is a cross, it means the item is not sent to that channel.
How taxes and fees are calculated in Airbnb (REST API)
Taxes
Taxes exported to Airbnb via REST API will show separated from the room rate in the quote.
They are calculated on the amount of the base rate. They will be shown as a separate line item in the Airbnb quote.
🔎 Example: In Lodgify, you have set up 2.5% City tax and 20% VAT. The amount exported to Airbnb will be 22.5% and the taxes will be separated from the room rate in Airbnb's quote.
| Your setup in Lodgify | Price sent to Airbnb |
|---|---|
|
Your room rate in Lodgify is: $100 City tax: 2.5% VAT: 20% |
Room rate sent to Airbnb: $100.00 Taxes sent to Airbnb: 22.5% * 100 = $22.50 |
🔎 Example with cleaning fees: In Lodgify, the VAT for cleaning fees will be included in the taxes line of Airbnb's price breakdown. If you have set up a 10% VAT on the cleaning fees, this VAT amount will be separated from the room rate in Airbnb's quote and showed in the taxes:
| Your setup in Lodgify | Price sent to Airbnb |
|---|---|
|
Your room rate in Lodgify is: $100 VAT for the room rate: 20% Your cleaning fees in Lodgify are: $50 VAT for the cleaning fees: 10% City tax: 2.5% |
Room rate sent to Airbnb: $150.00 Taxes sent to Airbnb: (22.5% * $100) + (10% * $50) = $27,5 |
If your tax Scenario allows, make sure to add both the Business tax ID and the TOT registration ID into the respective fields, at the bottom of the Pricing section of your rental. Find out more here about what a Business Tax ID is and where to find it.
Taxable base for Airbnb
The taxable base lets you define which items a tax should apply to.
To define a taxable base:
- Edit your tax by clicking the pen icon.
- Enable Custom setup per channel, add the tax value for Airbnb, and then scroll down to Taxable base.
- Select the items to which this tax should apply.
🔎 For example, if you need to set a tourist tax that only applies to the nightly price, you would set the tourist tax at 3%, and it would apply only to the Nightly price.
Airbnb tax collection scenarios
You have 3 possible tax collection scenarios that you can apply to your Airbnb listings.
- Go to your Rentals section, then click Pricing.
- Click Taxes, and you will see your tax collection scenario on this page.
- If not done yet, you must add a business registration ID and TOT ID for your taxes to sync with Airbnb.
When you connect your Airbnb account, we will automatically sync all taxes that can be synced. After the connection, any tax you have configured in Lodgify will always be sent to Airbnb, unless your tax collection scenario is ineligible. If you don’t want a specific tax to be synced, you can use Custom setup per channel and set the tax value to 0 for Airbnb.
Fees
All fees will be included in the room price.
🔎 Examples:
|
Fee set as a % 💡 Note: The pet fee must be calculated as a flat amount. |
Your room rate in Lodgify is: $100 Resort fee: 5% |
Price exported to Airbnb: $105 |
| Fee set as a flat amount. |
Your room rate in Lodgify is: $100 Cleaning fee: $25 Resort fee: $5 |
Price exported to Airbnb: $130 |
If you don’t want to send fees or taxes to Airbnb, you can use Custom setup per channel and set the value to 0 for Airbnb.
How taxes and fees are calculated in Booking.com
Taxes and fees will be sent to Booking.com separately from the daily price.
💡 Note: Since October 1, 2025, in certain regions of Canada, Booking.com automatically calculates, withholds, and remits specific taxes when payments are made via virtual credit card (VCC). You can find more information in our dedicated article and in Booking.com's official documentation.
Fees mapping
Use this table to see whether the fees are exported to Booking.com based on their type and calculation model:
| Fee type | Supported | Fee name on Booking.com | Supported calculation type | Notes |
| AdditionalBed | ✅ | Rollaway fee | All | |
| AirConditioning | ✅ | Air conditioning fee | All | |
| CleaningFee | ✅ | Cleaning fee | All | |
| Electricity | ✅ | Electricity fee | All | |
| Gas | ✅ | Gas fee | All | |
| Heating | ✅ | Heating fee | All | |
| Internet | ✅ | Internet fee | Flat /single charge/ per night | This is sent as information but is not included in the guest fare calculation. |
| Linens | ✅ | Linen package fee | All | |
| LinensBath | ✅ | Towel charge | All | |
| LinensBed | ✅ | Bed linen fee | All | |
| Oil | ✅ | Oil fee | All | |
| Parking | ✅ | Parking fee | Flat /single charge/ per night or stay | This is sent as information but is not included in the guest fare calculation. |
| PropertyAssociation | ✅ | Club card fee | All | |
| Resort | ✅ | Resort fee | All | |
| ServiceFee | ✅ | Service charge | All | |
| Transportation | ✅ | Transfer fee | All | |
| Wood | ✅ | Wood fee | All | |
| Water | ✅ | Water usage fee | All | |
| PetFee | ❌ | If the “Pets Allowed” amenity is turned on, guests will see that it is allowed and charges may apply. | ||
| BabyBed | ❌ | |||
| Class | ❌ | |||
| Concierge | ❌ | |||
| DamageProtectionInsurance | ❌ | |||
| DrinkingWater | ❌ | |||
| Equipment | ❌ | |||
| Food | ❌ | |||
| FoodUtensils | ❌ | |||
| Gardening | ❌ | |||
| HighChair | ❌ | |||
| HotTub | ❌ | |||
| Labor | ❌ | |||
| Laundry | ❌ | |||
| ManagementFee | ❌ | |||
| MiscCharges | ❌ | |||
| NULL | ❌ | |||
| OnSitePaymentMethod | ❌ | |||
| Phone | ❌ | |||
| Pool | ❌ | |||
| PoolHeating | ❌ | |||
| Rent | ❌ | |||
| Spa | ❌ | |||
| Toiletries | ❌ | |||
| Tour | ❌ | |||
| TravelInsurance | ❌ | |||
| Unknown | ❌ | |||
| UtensilsCleaning | ❌ | |||
| Vehicle | ❌ | |||
| WaterCraft | ❌ |
Taxes mapping
Use this table to see whether the taxes are exported to Booking.com based on their type and calculation model:
| Fee type | Supported | Tax name on Booking.com | Supported calculation type |
| Hotel Tax | ✅ |
Government tax | All |
| Lodging Tax | ✅ |
Goods & services tax | All |
| Room tax | ✅ |
Residential tax | All |
| Tourist tax | ✅ |
City Tax | All |
| Tansient Ocuppancy Tax | ✅ |
Local city tax | All |
| VAT Inclusive | ✅ |
VAT | Percentage |
| VAT Exclusive | ✅ |
VAT | Percentage |
| Tourism Assesment Tax | ❌ |
||
| Unkown | ❌ |
💡 Note: If you don’t want to send certain fees or taxes to Booking.com because you already have them calculated from Booking.com's side, you can use Custom setup per channel and set the tax value to 0 for Booking.com.
How taxes and fees are calculated in Expedia
Taxes and fees are not sent to Expedia. Lodgify only sends the room price to Expedia, so you will need to set up your taxes inside your Expedia partner central as well as in Lodgify. Understand your tax setup in Lodgify.
Here you can see how the quote will show up in Lodgify. All fees will be summed up in the Miscellaneous amount separated from the room rate.
How taxes and fees are calculated in HomeAway/VRBO
Taxes and fees are sent to HomeAway/VRBO and are shown separately from your room price inside a HomeAway quote. The price breakdown will show exactly the same as for a booking created inside your Lodgify website.
💡 Note: For VRBO, the tax will only be calculated on the room rate.