The Village of Ridgewood prohibits short-term rentals entirely under Code Chapter 117, Article IX, so there is no local STR registration fee, license, or hotel tax to pay — because operating a paid STR under 30 days is itself unlawful. If a property is rented for 30+ days (the only legal compensated rental in Ridgewood), no NJ transient-accommodation taxes apply. Bergen County does not impose a separate hotel/lodging tax. The only Ridgewood-specific charge an STR operator would face is the violation penalty: up to $1,000 per day under §117 Art. IX.
Ridgewood is one of several Bergen County municipalities that responded to the 2018 NJ 'Airbnb tax' law (P.L. 2018, c. 49) by banning, rather than regulating, short-term rentals. Code Chapter 117, Article IX makes it unlawful for any owner, lessor, or sublessor to receive compensation of any kind for the use, occupancy, or rental of a dwelling for a period of 30 days or less. The only exempt occupancy under 30 days is unpaid use by a member of the housekeeping unit of the owner (genuine house guests). Because no compensated STRs are legal in the Village, Ridgewood has no STR registration system, no license fee, no occupancy tax, and no host fee schedule — operators cannot 'pay to comply.' For lawful 30+ day rentals: under N.J.S.A. 54:32D-1 and the post-August 9, 2019 amendments (P.L. 2019, c. 235), rentals of transient accommodations are no longer subject to the 6.625% NJ sales tax, the 5% state occupancy fee, or the Meadowlands/Atlantic City regional fees unless the rental is booked through a transient space marketplace (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com) or qualifies as a professionally managed unit (a unit owned or controlled by a person renting three or more separate units in the calendar year). A traditional 30+ day lease arranged directly between owner and tenant, with no marketplace involvement, is not subject to NJ transient-accommodation tax. Bergen County does not levy a county-level hotel or occupancy tax, so there is no county tax layer. Income from a Ridgewood lease is still subject to NJ Gross Income Tax on rental income (Schedule NJ-BUS-1). Operators should also note that pre-existing NJ Hotel/Motel Occupancy fees and county taxes from the 2018 law were repealed for non-marketplace, non-professionally-managed transient stays in August 2019.
Operating any compensated rental under 31 days in Ridgewood violates Code §117 Art. IX. Penalty: a fine not to exceed $1,000 per violation, and each day the violation continues after written notice from the Village constitutes a new and separate violation under §117 Art. IX. Listing or advertising a prohibited rental — including on Airbnb, Vrbo, or any marketplace — is itself a violation under the section's anti-facilitation language ('No person shall undertake, maintain, authorize, aid, facilitate, solicit and advertise any rental activity that violates any part or provisions of this article'). Failure to remit NJ sales/occupancy taxes on any otherwise-taxable rental can carry NJ Division of Taxation penalties of 5% per month up to 25% plus interest under N.J.S.A. 54:49-4.
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