Redlands, CA Hotels & Lodging: Transient Occupancy Tax (2026)
Key Facts
- Tax rate
- 10% of rent charged
- Transient defined as
- occupancy of 30 days or less
- Tax administrator
- city finance director or designee
- Registration deadline
- 30 days after opening
- Exempt rent threshold
- $2.00/day or less
- Misdemeanor fine
- up to $500 or 6 months
Summary
Redlands charges a 10% transient occupancy tax on rent paid by any guest staying 30 consecutive days or less in a hotel, motel, inn, or similar lodging. Operators collect it at the time rent is paid and must register with the city's tax administrator, the finance director, within 30 days of opening.
For the privilege of occupancy in any hotel, each transient is subject to and shall pay a tax in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the rent charged by the operator. Such tax constitutes a debt owed by the transient to the city which is extinguished only by payment to the operator or to the city. The transient shall pay the tax to the operator of the hotel at the time the rent is paid. If the rent is paid in installments, the proportionate share of the tax shall be paid with each installment.
Full Breakdown
100. 030 to include any hotel, inn, tourist home, motel, studio hotel, lodging house, rooming house, apartment house, dormitory, public or private club, mobilehome located outside a mobilehome park, or house trailer at a fixed location, but excludes hospitals, convalescent homes, and sanitariums. 090. The tax debt is extinguished only by payment to the operator or the city, and if the rent is paid in installments the tax is paid proportionately with each installment. 120. 080 as the city's finance director or designee, within 30 days of the ordinance's effective date or of commencing business, and to post the resulting registration certificate conspicuously on the premises.
00 a day or less, federal and state officers and employees on official business, certain foreign government officers, and qualifying religious, charitable, or educational organizations, but only where a claim is made under penalty of perjury at the time rent is collected. 220.
Violations & Fines
Delinquent operators owe a 10% penalty on top of the tax if not remitted on time (§ 3.24.250), a second 10% penalty if still delinquent 30 days later (§ 3.24.260), and a 25% fraud penalty where nonpayment is determined to be fraudulent (§ 3.24.270). Failing to register, refusing to file a return, or filing a false or fraudulent return or claim is a misdemeanor under § 3.24.300, punishable under § 3.24.310 by a fine of up to $500, up to six months in the city jail, or both.
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