Hotels & Lodging in Pennsylvania (2026)
5 rules on the books across Pennsylvania, 5 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.
Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions
Transient Occupancy Tax
Local hotel and short-term-rental occupancy taxes, who must collect them, remittance schedules, and use of the revenue for tourism, transportation, or housing.
Allegheny County
Some RestrictionsAllegheny County imposes a hotel room rental tax of up to 5% on the consideration paid to hotel operators for renting…
Read full rule →Bucks County
Some RestrictionsBucks County charges a 5% lodging room rental tax on every hotel, motel, inn, guesthouse or bed-and-breakfast stay…
Read full rule →Philadelphia
Some RestrictionsPhiladelphia charges an 8.5% combined hotel excise tax on room rentals, Room Rental, Tourism and Marketing, and…
Read full rule →Reading
Some RestrictionsReading has no separate hotel or room occupancy tax. Hotels, motels and rooming houses instead pay the citywide…
Read full rule →York County
Some RestrictionsYork County levies a 5% excise tax on every hotel, motel, bed-and-breakfast, and rooming-house room rented to…
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