West Valley City, UT Hotels & Lodging: Transient Occupancy Tax (2026)
Key Facts
- Current rate
- 1% of rent
- Prior rate
- 1.5%, ended by 1/1/2023
- Due
- Quarterly to City Treasurer
- "Transient"
- Stay of 30 days or less
Summary
West Valley City levies a Transient Room Tax on public accommodations; the rate dropped from 1.5% to 1% once the city's event-center bond debt was retired, no later than January 1, 2023.
"(1) There is levied upon the business of every person, company, corporation, or other like and similar persons, groups, or organizations providing public accommodations, a tax equal to one and one-half percent (1 1/2%) of the rent charged for each transient occupying a public accommodation. (2) Effective on the Additional Tax Ending Date, the tax levied by Subsection 6-4-102(1) shall be equal to one percent (1%)."
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 26-30, passed June 23, 2026).
Full Breakdown
West Valley City's Transient Room Tax, Chapter 6-4, taxes 'Public Accommodations', hotels, motels, motor courts, inns, bed and breakfasts, condominiums, and resort homes, rented to a 'Transient,' defined as anyone occupying the accommodation for 30 consecutive days or less. Section 6-4-102(1) sets the base rate at 1.5% of rent, but subsection (2) drops it to 1% once the 'Additional Tax Ending Date' arrives, the earlier of the City's 1996 Event Center bond debt being paid off or January 1, 2023. Since that date has passed, 1% is the rate currently in effect. The tax is due quarterly to the City Treasurer.
Violations & Fines
Failing to remit the tax within 30 days of the quarter's start triggers the state-law penalty and interest schedule, though the City Council may waive both for a taxpayer who later pays.
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