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Lafayette, IN Short-Term Rentals: Taxes & Fees (2026)

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Compiled from the official code textEditor Martyn O'NeillLast verified September 2026

Key Facts

Permit fee: $100.00
Fee-setting ordinance: Ord. No. 2018-01, § 1, 2-5-18
Underlying registration requirement: Ord. No. 2017-27
Code chapter: Title 4, Ch. 4.20

Summary

Short-term rental operators in Lafayette must pay a $100 transient rental registration permit fee. The fee is set by city ordinance and applies to the registration required for operating a transient rental under Ordinance No. 2017-27.

4.20.010 - Fee. The permit fee for a transient rental registration permit, as required by Ordinance No. 2017-27, is one hundred dollars ($100.00).

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Full Breakdown

Lafayette Municipal Code Chapter 4.20, "Transient Rental Registration Permit," consists of a single codified section, § 4.20.010, which fixes the dollar amount owed for the permit: "the permit fee for a transient rental registration permit, as required by Ordinance No. 2017-27, is one hundred dollars ($100.00)." The section text confirms the registration obligation itself was created by the city's separate Ordinance No. 2017-27, and the codified chapter that resulted, adopted by Ordinance No. 2018-01 on February 5, 2018, exists to set and update that fee.

Because this is the only codified provision in the transient rental chapter, it establishes the dollar cost of compliance for anyone operating a short-term or transient rental in the city: a $100 registration permit fee, due as part of registering the rental with the city under the referenced 2017 ordinance. The chapter sits in Title 4, Business Licensing, alongside other Lafayette business-registration fees such as the $200 peddler and solicitor license and the $100 annual parklet license, reflecting the city's general practice of pairing each licensed or registered business activity with a flat, code-specified fee collected by the City Controller's office.

Violations & Fines

The code section itself states only the fee amount; it does not print a separate penalty clause for nonpayment. Operating a transient rental without paying the required registration fee would fall back on the general Title 1 violations bureau schedule for uncodified fine amounts unless enforced administratively through permit denial.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much is Lafayette's short-term rental registration fee?

Lafayette Municipal Code § 4.20.010 sets the transient rental registration permit fee at $100.00, as required by the city's separate Ordinance No. 2017-27 that created the registration obligation.

Is the STR fee a tax or a flat permit charge?

It is codified as a flat permit fee, not a percentage occupancy tax: the code text reads "the permit fee for a transient rental registration permit ... is one hundred dollars ($100.00)."

When was Lafayette's transient rental fee adopted?

The $100 fee was codified by Ordinance No. 2018-01, § 1, adopted February 5, 2018, referencing the earlier Ordinance No. 2017-27 that established the transient rental registration permit itself.

Sources & Official References

[1]Lafayette, Indiana Municipal Code

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