Sahuarita, AZ Hotels & Lodging: Transient Occupancy Tax (2026)
Key Facts
- Hotels base rate
- 2.00% (Business Code 044)
- Hotel/Motel Additional Tax
- 2.00% (Business Code 144)
- Combined Town lodging tax
- 4.00%
- Model City Tax Code cites
- Article IV Sections 444, 447
- Adopted/amended by
- Ord. 2020-150; Ord. 2023-170
Summary
Sahuarita taxes lodging under two separate line items in the Town Code Section 3.05.060 rate table: a 2.00% Hotels tax under Business Code 044 and a separate 2.00% Hotel/Motel Additional Tax under Business Code 144. Combined, that is a 4.00% Town transient tax collected on top of the state and county transaction privilege tax on hotel and motel room charges.
Hotels IV-444 044 2.00 ... Hotel/Motel (Additional Tax) IV-447 144 2.00
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4745395; v0 updated 2025-12-08; through 12-08-2025).
Full Breakdown
060 lists lodging under two distinct classifications drawn from the Model City Tax Code. 00% rate. 00% rate. 00%, layered on top of whatever state and Pima County transaction privilege tax also applies to the same gross income. 010. A hotel, motel, or other lodging operator registers once for a transaction privilege tax license with the Arizona Department of Revenue, then reports gross lodging income under both Business Code 044 and Business Code 144 on the same periodic return; the two amounts are remitted together but tracked as separate classifications so the state can distribute the additional-tax revenue according to its own allocation rules.
Violations & Fines
Sahuarita has no separate hotel-tax enforcement office; both lodging classifications are enforced through the Arizona Department of Revenue under the Model Cities Tax Code adopted at Section 3.05.010. An operator who fails to report gross lodging income under both Business Code 044 and Business Code 144, or who collects the tax from guests without remitting it, is subject to the state's standard transaction privilege tax assessment, interest and penalty process covering the unpaid balance on the combined 4.00% rate.
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