Wyandotte County, KS Short-Term Rentals: Taxes & Fees (2026)

Section 27-623(d)(1) is short and direct: the property owner, not a booking platform, is responsible for collecting whatever lodging or hotel tax is duly owed under state and local law. That duty is layered onto the rest of the short-term rental performance standards in Sec. 27-623(a)(4), which separately requires hosts to maintain 'a current occupation tax receipt issued by the business licensing division' as subsection (a)(4)b. Both the administrative-review packet and the special-use-permit packet require the applicant to post inside the rental 'a copy of the occupational tax receipt for the current calendar year' where tenants can see it, alongside the approval letter and the permit's expiration date.

Because tax compliance is folded into the broader 'compliance with all other applicable codes and ordinances' standard at Sec. 27-623(a)(4)e, a host who stops paying required lodging taxes or lets the occupation tax receipt lapse is treated the same as a host violating parking or noise standards. The unified government administers this through the department of planning and urban design for the land-use approval side and the business licensing division for the tax receipt side, so a lapse can show up in either channel during the required annual renewal of an administrative review or a periodic special-use-permit reapplication.