Lodging in the Town of Vienna under 30 consecutive days is subject to Fairfax County Transient Occupancy Tax: 2% Tourism plus 3% Regional Transportation, totaling 5%. Returns are filed monthly with Fairfax County Tax Administration on or before the 20th of the following month.
Although Fairfax County's Short-Term Lodging zoning ordinance does not apply to the incorporated Town of Vienna, the County's Transient Occupancy Tax does extend to lodging businesses within the Towns of Clifton, Herndon, and Vienna. The total County TOT is 5%, comprised of a 2% Tourism component and a 3% Regional Transportation District component, applied to gross room rental for occupancy of fewer than 30 consecutive days at any hotel, motel, tourist home, rooming house, or other place offering short-term lodging, which includes Airbnb and Vrbo-style rentals. Operators must file a monthly TOT return with the Fairfax County Department of Tax Administration on or before the 20th of each month covering the prior month, and a return must be filed even when no taxes are due. Accommodations intermediaries such as Airbnb may collect and remit the County TOT on behalf of hosts under Va. Code Title 58.1. Vienna does not impose its own separate transient occupancy tax on top of the County rate, and the Town has not adopted a local short-term rental registry under Va. Code Sec. 15.2-983.
Failure to register the lodging business with Fairfax County, file monthly TOT returns, or remit collected tax exposes the operator to penalties and interest under the County tax code administered by the Department of Tax Administration. Late filings accrue penalty and interest charges; persistent non-filing can result in audit, assessment, and collection action.
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