New Jersey taxes taxable short-term rentals at 6.625% Sales Tax plus a 5% State Occupancy Fee. A Burlington County municipality may add a local occupancy tax up to 3%. There is no separate Burlington County short-term rental tax.
This is the genuine county-adjacent angle. New Jersey imposes Sales Tax at 6.625% and the State Occupancy Fee at 5% on taxable transient accommodations (those booked via a marketplace or professionally managed). On top of that, N.J.S.A. 40:48F authorizes a municipality that allows short-term rentals to impose a municipal occupancy tax 'not to exceed three percent.' That local tax is a municipal choice, collected by the state Division of Taxation and remitted back to the town. Burlington County itself does not levy its own countywide short-term rental or hotel occupancy tax the way Cape May County's tourism tax works. So a taxable Burlington County rental can carry up to roughly 14.625% combined (6.625% + 5% + up to 3% municipal),
Failure to collect and remit Sales Tax, the State Occupancy Fee, or an adopted municipal occupancy tax on a taxable rental exposes the host to Division of Taxation penalties and interest. The municipal tax is enforced through the state's collection
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