Huntington, NY Short-Term Rentals: Taxes & Fees (2026)

Section 160-52(A) requires 'a non-refundable application fee of fifty ($50.00) dollars per property' payable when the owner files with the Department of Public Safety, and states that paying it does not excuse the owner from complying with building, housing, fire or other code requirements. Section 160-53 sets the annual renewal fee at 'twenty-five ($25) dollars,' due with the renewal application before the existing permit expires; if the owner misses that deadline, the section requires paying the full $50 original-application fee again 'plus a late fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars.'

The fee schedule extends past ordinary renewal. Section 160-67 provides that once a revoked permit's one-year waiting period has run and the owner has fixed whatever caused the revocation, reapplying costs a flat 'one-hundred and fifty ($150) dollar application fee,' three times the ordinary rate. None of these local permit fees are a bed tax or occupancy tax; Huntington's short-term rental law does not impose one, and the fees instead fund the Department of Public Safety's permit review, inspection and enforcement program under Chapter 160, Article IV.

Failing to pay the correct fee, or letting a permit lapse without renewing, does not just cost money: Section 160-49(A) treats an expired, unrenewed permit as no permit at all, so the property reverts to operating unlawfully and faces the same fines that apply to a first-time unpermitted rental under Section 160-73(A)(2).