Erie County has no land-use registration for short-term rentals, but every STR operator must file a Certificate of Registration with the Erie County Comptroller within three days of opening for hotel occupancy tax purposes.
Erie County does not maintain a countywide short-term-rental registry for zoning or licensing; that role belongs to your town or city. However, since the Occupancy Tax Modernization Act took effect January 4, 2024, short-term and vacation rentals are treated as taxable operators under Erie County Local Law No. 12-1974. Each operator must file a Certificate of Registration with the Erie County Comptroller's Office within three days after the business opens, then collect the tax from guests and file returns. County tax registration is separate from, and in addition to, any municipal STR registration and the New York State sales-tax registration. Operators must file returns even for periods when no tax was collected.
Operating without filing the required Certificate of Registration or returns exposes the operator to penalty and interest assessed by the Erie County Comptroller under the Hotel Occupancy Tax law.
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