Short-Term Rentals in Lake County, CA (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Lake County, California.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Lake County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Taxes & Fees
Lake County's transient occupancy tax reaches short-term vacation rentals because its code defines "hotel" broadly to include any structure rented to transients, exempting only a private home rented occasionally and incidentally by its owner. Hosts must register and collect the same 9 percent tax as hotels.
Lake County Short-Term Rental Occupancy Tax
Some RestrictionsLake County Code § 18-11(b)(2)-(3) (Transient Occupancy Tax, Definitions - Hotel)
Hotel does not mean any of the following: ... any private dwelling house or other individually-owned single-family dwelling unit rented only occasionally and incidentally to the normal occupancy by the owner or his family. ... The burden of establishing that the housing or facility is not a hotel as defined herein shall be upon the operator thereof, who shall file with the Tax Collector such in...
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