Hotels & Lodging in Reading, PA (2026)
1 verified hotels & lodging rules for Reading, Pennsylvania, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Transient Occupancy Tax
Reading has no separate hotel or room occupancy tax. Hotels, motels and rooming houses instead pay the citywide Business Privilege Tax on room, meal and service receipts, currently 1½ mills of gross receipts.
Reading PA Hotel Tax Via Business Privilege Tax
Some RestrictionsReading Codified Ordinances § 549-403(A); § 549-515.N(1)
The rate of the tax on each dollar volume of gross annual receipts of every person engaged in occupations or business in the City shall be 1 1/2 mills; 1 1/2 mills shall mean $1.50 per $1,000 volume of gross annual receipts... Generally, persons operating hotels, motels, apartment houses, boarding houses, nursing homes, rooming houses and all other such establishments are taxable on receipts fr...
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