For Mohave County Assessor Jeanne Kentch, one mindset may have shaped recent new policies in her office related to short-term rental properties: If homeowners are going to act like hotel owners, they’re going to be taxed like it.
In July, Kentch announced a new policy for taxable assessments of parcels identified as full-time short-term rentals. Kentch says that decision was a matter of correcting a responsibility that has been long overlooked by assessor’s offices throughout the state, while also leveling the playing field for local hospitality businesses. But that policy has drawn contention from Phoenix lobbyists who on Wednesday issued a warning that property owners may sue Mohave County over the new policy.
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