Las Vegas, NV Short-Term Rentals: Host Platform Liability (2026)
Key Facts
- Facilitator license fee
- $3,000 per year
- Delisting deadline
- 5 business days after notice
- Tax-only liability shield
- LVMC 6.75.122(B)
- Unlicensed-listing fine
- $1,000-$10,000 per violation
Summary
Airbnb and other hosting platforms must hold a City accommodations facilitator license, collect room taxes, and pull unlicensed listings within five business days, but that licensed status doesn't itself expand their liability for the rental.
An accommodations facilitator...is deemed to be engaged in the business of providing transient lodging within the City. However, the deemed to be provisions...: (1) Are solely for the purposes of imposing, collecting and remitting all taxes on the gross receipts from the rental of transient lodging; and (2) By themselves do not create, expand or alter any other liability, duty, obligation or responsibility of the accommodations facilitator for, or relating to, the short-term residential rental.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 61).
Full Breakdown
Las Vegas treats a hosting platform as an accommodations facilitator under LVMC 6.75.122, requiring its own City license (LVMC 6.75.124, $3,000 a year) separate from the operator's. Under 6.75.128, the platform must collect and remit transient lodging taxes, post the rental's City business license number in every local listing, and pull any listing within five business days after the City flags it as unlicensed. LVMC 6.75.122(B) states the platform is deemed a lodging provider only for tax-collection purposes -- that status does not itself expand the platform's liability for the rental.
Violations & Fines
Facilitating an unlicensed rental: $1,000-$10,000 per violation. Licensed facilitator violations: $1,000 per violation or the nightly rate, whichever is higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
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