Overland Park, KS Hotels & Lodging: Transient Occupancy Tax (2026)

Charter Ordinance No. A. 12-1692 through 12-1698, 12-16,101 and 12-16,113) and substitutes the city's own terms. Section 4 caps the levy at 9% of gross receipts paid by transient guests for sleeping accommodations in a hotel, motel or tourist court, exclusive of charges for incidental services; the exact percentage actually charged is fixed separately by an ordinary ordinance of the Governing Body, not by the charter ordinance itself. A 'transient guest' under Section 3 is someone who occupies a room for 28 consecutive days or fewer; longer stays fall outside the tax.

A. , so operators remit through the state's system rather than a city tax office. Section 5 restricts spending to promoting conventions and tourism, financing or bonding convention-center and exposition-hall capital projects, and up to $50,000 per year for economic development, with the Governing Body apportioning funds among those purposes by ordinary ordinance. Any outside entity receiving more than $25,000 a year of that revenue for tourism and convention activity must keep a separate accounting and report receipts and expenditures to the City after its fiscal year ends (Section 7).

Section 8 lets the City Manager adopt rules needed to carry out the ordinance, and Section 6 lets the City set its own advisory committee on tax use instead of following the state's statutory committee structure.