Hotels & Lodging in Harford County, MD (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Harford County, Maryland.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Harford County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Transient Occupancy Tax
Harford County levies a 6% hotel occupancy tax on rent paid for a room in a hotel, inn, motel, cottage, guest house or bed-and-breakfast, but the tax stops applying once a guest's stay runs past 30 consecutive days. Small bed-and-breakfasts and guest houses with 3 or fewer sleeping rooms are excluded from the definition of hotel entirely and owe nothing under this article.
Harford County Hotel Occupancy Tax Rate
Some RestrictionsHarford County Code §§ 123-63, 123-64, 123-66
HOTEL: A facility that offers sleeping accommodations to the transient public. Hotel also includes an inn, motel, cottage, hostelry, rooming house, guest house, bed and breakfast or tourist home. Hotel does not include a cottage, hostelry, rooming house, guest house, bed and breakfast or tourist home with 3 or fewer separate sleeping rooms for the lodging of occupants. ... § 123-64. Tax levied....
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