Neenah, WI Hotels & Lodging: Transient Occupancy Tax (2026)
Key Facts
- Room tax rate
- 10 percent total
- STR owners
- Included as 'operators'
- CVB share
- 2.85 percent
- Legal basis
- Wis. Stats. § 66.0615
Summary
Neenah imposes a flat ten percent room tax on hotels, motels, and short-term rental operators renting rooms to transients, split four ways among tourism, an exhibition center, and City funds.
Pursuant to the Room Tax Act, there is hereby imposed a ten percent room tax on the privilege of furnishing, at retail, except sales for resale, rooms or lodging to transients, by the operators. Operators shall remit all room taxes to (i) the City's Clerk, or (ii) to a fiscal agent on behalf of the City pursuant to a fiscal agency agreement in accordance with the requirements of this article and the Room Tax Act.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 44).
Full Breakdown
Under § 15-22, Neenah levies a ten percent room tax on the privilege of furnishing lodging to transients at retail. The rate stacks four allocations: 2.85% funds the Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau, 3% services Exhibition Center Bonds debt (sunsets once paid off), 1.15% funds general tourism development, and 3% supports Fox Cities amateur sports/tourism facilities. 'Operators' subject to the tax expressly include hotelkeepers, motel operators, lodging marketplaces, and owners of short-term rentals under § 15-21. Operators remit tax to the City Clerk or a designated fiscal agent under the Fox Cities Room Tax Commission framework, per Wis. Stats. § 66.0615.
Violations & Fines
Operators who fail to remit the full room tax by the quarterly due date have payments applied first to the CVB share, then Exhibition Center, Tourism Facilities, and finally Municipal allocations, in that priority order under § 15-24.
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