HOTEL ROOM OCCUPANCY TAX RETURN FOR USE BY OPERATORS AND ROOM REMARKETERS -HTX Period beginning ________-_________-________ Period ending ________-_________-________ Legal Name: Name EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION ____________________________________________________________________________Change n NUMBER: Trade Name: OR ____________________________________________________________________________ SOCIAL SECURITY In Care of: NUMBER: ____________________________________________________________________________ Location Address (number and street): Address ____________________________________________________________________________Change n ACCOUNT City and State: Zip Code: Country (if not US): ID: ____________________________________________________________________________ FEDERAL BUSINESS Business Telephone Number: Taxpayer’s Email Address: CODE: *40012191* Check type of business entity: n Corporation n Partnership or LLC n Individual, estate or trust n Initial return: Date business began nn nn nnnn - - n Final return: Date business ended nn nn nnnn - - (Check this box if you have ceased operations in NYC) n Amended return Room Remarketers please check box n Enter 2‑character special condition code, if applicable. (See inst.): nn Operators must enter the following information in order for this return to be complete: a. If this is a final return, check the "final return" box above and, if there is a new operator, please enter the new operator’s name, otherwise, enter “None”: ............................................................................................................................................................................................. a. b. Number of rooms available to transient occupants at the above hotel (see instructions)................................................................ b. c. Number of rooms rented to permanent residents at the above hotel (see instructions) ..................................................................................... c. d. If you are an operator renting out apartments or living units under a single certificate of authority in more than one building, check this box and attach an addendum: d. n e. Billing address, if different from the address above ):___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NUMBER AND STREET CITY STATE ZIP CODE COUNTRY SCHEDULE A Computation of Tax Payment Amount A. Payment Amount being paid electronically with this return............................................................ A. RENT CATEGORIES TAX RATE NUMBER OF TAXABLE ROOM RENTALS TAX DUE (SEE INSTRUCTIONS ) (PER ROOM AND DAY ) DURING THIS TAXABLE PERIOD (TAX RATE X # OF TAXABLE ROOM RENTALS ) 1. $ 10 - $19.99............................................................. $ 0.50 1. 2. $ 20.00 - $29.99.................................................... $ 1.00 2. 3. $ 30.00 - $39.99.................................................... $ 1.50 3. 4. $ 40.00 and over .................................................. $ 2.00 4. ADDITIONAL TAX DUE TAX RATE TOTAL RENTS DURING THIS TAX PERIOD ADD’ L TAX DUE (TAX RATE X TOTAL RENTS ) 5. Additional Tax 5.875% 5. 6. Total of lines 1 through 5 ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6. 7. Total tax collected (see instructions) ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7. 8. Tax before refunds and/or credits (greater of lines 6 or 7) .............................................................................................................. 8. 9. Refunds and/or credits (attach schedule) (see instructions) ........................................................................................................... 9. 10. Total tax due (line 8 less line 9)....................................................................................................................................................................................... 10. 11. Less: (a) Prepayments for the period .............................................. 11a. (b) Credits carried from previous tax return ............ 11b. 12. Total of lines 11a and 11b ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12. 13. Balance due (line 10 less line 12) ............................................................................................................................................................................... 13. 14. Overpayment (line 12 less line 10) ............................................................................................................................................................................ 14. 15. Amount of line 14 to be: (a) Refunded ................................................................................................................................................................ 15a. (b) Credited to next quarter’s tax ......................................................................................................... 15b. 16. Interest (see instructions) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16. 17. Penalty (see instructions) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17. 18. TOTAL REMITTANCE DUE (line 13 plus lines 16 and 17) .................................................................................................................. 18. I hereby certify that this return, including any accompanying schedules or statements, has been examined by me and is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, correct and complete. Firm’s Email Address: I authorize the Dept. of Finance to discuss this return with the preparer listed below. (see instructions) .....................................YES n __________________________________________ Preparer’s Social Security Number _________________________________________ _____________________ __________________ ________________ Signature of owner, partner or corporate officer Title Telephone Number Date _________________________________________ __________________________________ ________________ Preparer’s signature Preparer’s printed name Date Firm’s Employer Identification Number CERTIFICATION OF TAXPAYER _____________________________ __________________________________ ______________ Check the box Firm’s name Address Zip Code Self-Employed: n MAKE REMITTANCE PAYABLE TO THE ORDER OF NYC DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. PAYMENT MUST BE MADE IN U.S. DOLLARS, DRAWN ON A U.S. BANK. ALL RETURNS EXCEPT REFUND RETURNS REMITTANCES RETURNS CLAIMING REFUNDS NYC DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE PAY ONLINE WITH FORM NYC-200V AT NYC.GOV/ESERVICES NYC DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE HOTEL TAX OR HOTEL TAX P.O. BOX 5564 Mail Payment and Form NYC-200V ONLY to: P.O. BOX 5563 BINGHAMTON, NY 13902-5564 NYC DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE BINGHAMTON, NY 13902-5563 40012191 P.O. BOX 3933 NYC-HTX 2020 NEW YORK, NY 10008-3933 |
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE Instructions for Form NYC-HTX Hotel Tax Quarterly Return IMPORTANT INFORMATION CONCERNING FORM NYC-200V AND PAYMENT OF TAX DUE Payments may be made on the NYC Department of Finance website at nyc.gov/eservices, or via check or money order. If paying with check or money order, do not include these payments with your New York City return. Checks and money orders must be accompanied by payment voucher form NYC-200V and sent to the address on the voucher. Form NYC-200V must be postmarked by the return due date to avoid late payment penalties and interest. See form NYC-200V for more information. GENERAL INFORMATION HTX Schedule A, lines 1 through 4) remains HIGHLIGHTS OF unchanged. See Local Law 067 of the Local IMPOSITION OF TAX Laws of 2011. RECENT RULE CHANGES The New York City Hotel Room Occupancy Tax The Department of Finance has adopted a number is separate from and in addition to sales taxes Effective for periods beginning on or after of new rules affecting the application of the New imposed by the State of New York and the City September 1, 2009, “room remarketers” are York City Hotel Room Occupancy Tax. of New York on the occupancy of hotel rooms required to collect and remit the Hotel Room DE MINIMIS ACTIVITY RULE: and consists of a percentage of the rent plus a flat Occupancy Tax. Room remarketers are also Effective September 1, 2004, a facility will not be amount per day. This tax must be collected for required to register with the Commissioner of considered a hotel (see definition below) required every occupancy of each room in a hotel in the Finance. to collect the tax if, during any four consecutive City of New York except as provided below. Effective for periods beginning on or after tax quarters or any twelve-month period ending September 1, 2010, room remarketers are on the last day of February, rooms, apartments or FORM NYC-HTXB had been discontinued. required to collect the Hotel Occupancy Tax units are rented to occupants on fewer than three For periods beginning on or after January 1, on the full amount charged to the occupant occasions or for not more than 14 days in the 2016, small operators must use this form. and remit the tax collected directly to the aggregate. Rentals of rooms in a single building Commissioner of Finance. Room remarketers will be aggregated and rentals of apartments and HIGHLIGHTS OF will be allowed a refund or credit for tax they living units in one or more buildings owned or RECENT LAW CHANGE paid to a hotel operator for occupancies that leased by the same operator will be aggregated. Occupancies sold by a hotel operator to a do not qualify as exempt, or for any tax paid to Rentals under a single contract for one or more room remarketer on or after June 1, 2016 for another remarketer for that occupancy. Only consecutive days will be considered a single the purpose of selling to an occupant will be remarketers that have registered with the occasion, however, if a single contract provides exempt from Hotel Room Occupancy Tax. Commissioner of Finance to collect the Hotel for a rental for non-consecutive days, each period The room remarketer will still be responsible Occupancy Tax and have collected and of consecutive days will be considered a single for collecting and remitting the Hotel Room remitted Hotel Occupancy Tax for a occasion. If a room, apartment or unit is sublet or Occupancy Tax on the sale to the occupant. particular quarterly filing period may apply the right to occupy the room, apartment or unit is Any room remarketer claiming this exemption for this refund credit. For further information, sold or subcontracted to another person, each must provide the hotel operator with a New see Finance Memorandum 10-3 Rev. separate sublet or subcontract for a period of consecutive days will be considered a separate York State Room Remarketer’s Exempt The law also specifies that when occupancy of a occasion. Rentals to permanent residents (see Purchase Certificate. For further information, hotel room or rooms is sold for a single fee with definition below) will not be included in the see Finance Memorandum 16-5. other items or services, the entire amount is number of occasions or days of rentals for this considered taxable rent. This new requirement purpose. Once a facility is required to register Effective for all occupancies occurring on or results in a change in the position reflected in and collect the tax because it exceeds the de after December 20, 2013 and before December the Hotel Occupancy Tax Rules under which minimis thresholds during a period, it must 1, 2023, the additional tax (Form NYC-HTX, tax need only be collected on a specified continue to collect the tax even if it falls below schedule A, line 5) is 5.875% of the rent or portion of total charges when those charges the threshold in a later period. However, if a charge per day. The fixed rate tax of 50 cents Include meals. Charges for meals must now be facility, once registered, falls below the threshold up to $2.00 per room per day (Form NYC- separately stated in order for those charges not for a period of three consecutive years, the HTX, Schedule A, lines 1 through 4) remains to be subject to Hotel Occupancy Tax. facility is not considered a hotel and is not unchanged. See Local Law 207 of the Local required to file. For further information, see Title Laws of 2019. After September 1, 2012, when hotel 19 Rules of the City of New York §12-01, occupancy is sold together with other items for definition of "hotel", effective February 19, 2005. Effective for all occupancies occurring on or after a single price, and the rent is not exempt from December 1, 2013 and before December 20, 2013, the Hotel Room Occupancy Tax, room CHANGE IN FILING REQUIREMENTS the additional tax is 5% of the rent or charge per remarketers may use the formula method FOR SMALL OPERATORS: day. Form NYC-HTX, schedule A, line 5 should specified in the law to compute the amount of Effective for periods beginning on and after reflect a 5.875% rate and the .875% difference in rent that is subject to hotel occupancy tax. For September 1, 2004, operators of hotels having the rate for these occupancies should be a credit further information, see NYS TSB-M-12(8)S. fewer than ten (10) rooms and operators of fewer subtracted on schedule A, line 9. than ten (10) furnished apartments or furnished For periods beginning on September 1, 2009 living units may file their returns on an annual Effective for all occupancies occurring on or through periods ending on August 31, 2010, basis covering the twelve-month period ending after March 1, 2009 and before December 1, room remarketers should not use this form. on the last day of February. That return will be 2013, the additional tax (Form NYC-HTX, They should use the NYC-HTX-RR. due on the subsequent March 20 each year. For schedule A, line 5) was 5.875% of the rent or further information, see Title 19 Rules of the City charge per day. The fixed rate tax of 50 cents of New York §§12-06 and 12-07 effective up to $2.00 per room per day (Form NYC- February 19, 2005. |
Instructions for Form NYC-HTX Page 2 PERMANENT RESIDENT: convey, or furnish occupancy directly or indirectly, or possess a hotel room who is not a “permanent The definition of a permanent resident (see below) and to determine rent therefore, are the “rights of a resident” as defined above. has been clarified to provide that, in determining room remarketer”. A room remarketer is not a the number of days of consecutive occupancy, any permanent resident with respect to a room for which - Room day on which a person occupying the room sublets such person has the rights of a room remarketer. A “room” includes any portion of a hotel, other or otherwise contracts away that person's right to than a bathroom or lavatory, whether used for occupy the room will not be taken into account. - Occupancy dwelling, commercial or any other purposes, For further information, see Title 19 Rules of the “Occupancy” is the use or possession of any room or except: (1) A place of assembly as defined in the City of New York §12-01 effective July 25, 2001. rooms in a hotel, or the right to the use or possession of NYC Administrative Code (See Title 19 Rules of ____________________________ the furnishings or to the services and accommodations the City of New York Section 12-01); (2) A store, accompanying the use and possession of the room or stand or counter to which access is had directly NOTE: Effective for periods beginning on and rooms. There is an “occupancy” of a room whether or from public thoroughfares or street or mezzanine after April 1, 2005, New York State has enacted a not the person entitled to the use or possession of the lobbies; (3) A lobby, public dining room or other Convention Center Hotel Unit Fee of $1.50 per room actually uses or possesses it. Right to use or public room used for a private purpose. The term hotel unit per day. The fee is required to be possession includes the rights of a room remarketer. “room” also includes a kitchenette, provided that collected by hotels within the City. This fee is (a) it is a walk-in area, enclosed by walls, with not part of the New York City Hotel Room - Rent one or more doorways, archways, or other Occupancy Tax. The new fee is to be collected The consideration received for occupancy valued in openings, (b) it is supplied with a cooking and administered by the New York State money, whether received in money or otherwise, appliance, including, but not limited to, a range, Department of Taxation & Finance in the same including all receipts, cash, credits, and property or microwave or convection oven, or hot plate, and manner as the Sales Tax on hotel rooms. services of any kind or nature, including any (c) it contains at least one item from each of two Additional information is available on their service or other charge or amount required to be of the following three categories: (1) a sink with website at www.tax.ny.gov paid as a condition for occupancy, and also any running water, or dishwasher; (2) a refrigerator; ____________________________ amount for which credit is allowed by the operator (3) a cabinet, counter top, or table. or room remarketer to the occupant, without any deduction therefrom whatsoever, whether received REGISTRATION DEFINITIONS by the operator or a room remarketer or another Every operator of a hotel and every remarketer person on behalf of either of them. must file with the Department of Finance a - Hotel certificate of registration on the form prescribed For purposes of the tax, “hotel” is any building or - Permanent Resident by the Department of Finance for the purpose of portion thereof that is regularly used and kept open Except as otherwise provided below, a person is a obtaining a certificate of authority empowering for the lodging of occupants. The term “hotel” “permanent resident” as of a given date if he/she the operator to collect the tax. In the case of includes apartment hotels, motels, boarding houses, has had the right to occupy a room or rooms in a operators or remarketers commencing business or lodging houses and clubs, whether or not meals are particular hotel for the 180 consecutive days opening new hotels, a certificate of registration served. The rental to occupants, other than preceding that date. See "Highlights of Recent must be filed within three days after the permanent residents, of furnished apartments or Rule Changes - Permanent Resident” above for commencement or opening. Every operator who other furnished living units intended for single- recent changes related to the definition of a operates more than one hotel is required to obtain family use is considered a hotel. A hotel includes permanent resident. A person who enters into an a certificate of authority for each establishment. making one or more rooms in a property owned by agreement for occupancy for 180 consecutive An operator of furnished apartments or other an individual available to guests for compensation days or more does not become a “permanent furnished living units intended for single-family on a regular basis and also includes renting to guests resident” under the law until he/she has been an use subject to the tax and located at multiple more than one room in a dwelling place ordinarily occupant for 180 consecutive days, and the addresses may request a single certificate of occupied by a person as his or her residence. See operator is liable for the collection of the tax until authority for all such apartments or living units by "Highlights of Recent Rule Changes" above. that occupancy for 180 consecutive days has been attaching to the registration form a schedule completed. However, an occupant can obtain showing each apartment and its street address. - Operator permanent resident status prior to completing 180 The certificate of authority must be prominently An “operator” is any individual, partnership, days of consecutive occupancy by requesting a displayed by the operator in a manner that it may society, association, joint stock company, lease from the hotel operator pursuant to the be seen and come to the notice of all occupants corporation, estate, receiver, trustee, assignee, provisions of Section 2522.5 of the rent and persons seeking occupancy. In the case of a referee, or any other person acting in a fiduciary stabilization regulations promulgated by the New room remarketer that offers New York City hotel or representative capacity, whether appointed by York State Division of Housing and Community rooms via the internet, the Certificate of Authority a court or otherwise, and any combination of Renewal. Where the occupant has requested such should be scanned and displayed on the room individuals operating a hotel in the City of New a lease, the hotel operator should not collect the remarketer’s web site. York, including but not limited to the owner or tax for any day, starting on the date the lease was proprietor of such premises, lessee, sublessee, requested, that falls within a period of continuous Exemption of Nonprofit Operators. An mortgagee in possession, licensee, or any other occupancy by the occupant. However, if the organization organized and operated exclusively person operating the hotel. occupant does not complete 180 days of for religious, charitable, or educational purposes, or continuous occupancy, any taxes not previously for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, - Room Remarketer collected become immediately due and payable is exempt from the obligation to collect the tax as a A person who reserves, arranges for, conveys, or and are to be collected by the hotel operator. A hotel operator if it carries on its nonprofit activities furnishes occupancy, whether directly or indirectly, room remarketer is not a permanent resident with in premises in which, as part of the activities for to an occupant for rent in an amount determined by respect to a room for which such person has the which it was organized, it operates a hotel. To such room remarketer, directly or indirectly, whether rights of a room remarketer. obtain the above exemption as a hotel operator, a pursuant to a written or other agreement. Such person’s ability or authority to reserve, arrange for, - Transient Occupant nonprofit organization must submit a request for A “transient occupant” is a person entitled to use exemption containing the following: |
Instructions for Form NYC-HTX Page 3 1. a copy of the organization’s articles of Remittances - Pay online with Form NYC-200V for a full day at the rate for a full day. incorporation or association, at nyc.gov/eservices, or Mail payment and Form NYC-200V only to: 3) Where the rent covers a term longer than one 2. a copy of its by-laws, day, the rent per day is computed by dividing 3. a statement of receipts and disbursements for NYC Department of Finance the rent for the term by the total number of P.O. Box 3933 days in the term. its most recent year, New York, NY 10008-3933 4. a statement of its assets and liabilities for its EXEMPTIONS most recent year, Returns claiming refunds: The following persons are exempt from payment of 5. a copy of its exemption from federal income NYC Department of Finance the tax as hotel occupants: (a) permanent resident tax issued by the Internal Revenue Service, Hotel Tax as defined above, and (b) organizations and 6. copies of its federal, state, and City tax returns P.O. Box 5563 associations exempt from the State and City Sales for the most recent three years, and Binghamton, NY 13902-5563 Tax on hotel room rents as described in Tax Law 7. an affidavit of an officer of the organization section 1116(a), including the federal government, An operator who terminates the business or falls the State and City of New York, or any agency stating the following: below the de minimis threshold for three thereof, and certain nonprofit organizations. A a. type of organization consecutive years (see, “Highlights of Recent person or entity claiming exemption other than as a b. purpose for which it was organized Rule Changes”) must file a final return within 20 permanent resident must submit to the hotel days from the date the business was terminated. operator a New York State Sales Tax exemption c. a description of its actual activities If the business was sold, the purchaser must also certificate to obtain this exemption. d. source and disposition of its funds file a return covering the period beginning on the e. a statement that none of its net earnings is date of purchase. Occupancies sold by a hotel operator to a room credited to surplus nor may inure to the remarketer on or after June 1, 2016 for the benefit of any shareholder, member or ELECTRONIC FILING purpose of selling to an occupant will be exempt Register for electronic filing. It is an easy, secure individual, and from Hotel Room Occupancy Tax. Any room and convenient way to file and pay the Hotel Tax f. such other facts as may be relevant to its remarketer claiming this exemption must provide on-line. For more information log on to application. the hotel operator with a New York State Room NYC.gov/eservices Remarketer’s Exempt Purchase Certificate. The application should be submitted to: COMPUTATION OF TAX Preparer Authorization: If you want to allow New York City Dept. of Finance 1) This tax must be paid for every occupancy of the Department of Finance to discuss your return Exemption Processing Section each room in a hotel in the City of New York with the paid preparer who signed it, you must 59 Maiden Lane, 20th Floor at 5.875% of the rent charged plus an amount check the "yes" box in the signature area of the New York, NY 10038 per room per day based on the following table: return. This authorization applies only to the individual whose signature appears in the If the rent per full day The tax per day is: WHEN AND WHERE TO FILE for_________________________________________ the room is: "Preparer's Use Only" section of your return. It Every operator as defined above is required to $10 or more, but less than $20...........................................$ 0.50 does not apply to the firm, if any, shown in that file returns. Quarterly returns must be filed for $20 or more, but less than $30..........................................$ 1.00 section. By checking the "Yes" box, you are each establishment for each three-month period $30 or more, but less than $40..........................................$ 1.50 authorizing the Department of Finance to call the ending on the last days of August, November, $40 or more.............................................................................................$ 2.00 preparer to answer any questions that may arise February and May of each tax year and must be during the processing of your return. Also, you are filed within 20 days of the end of the period they In using the table, where an amount of rent is authorizing the preparer to: cover. However, effective for periods beginning charged for more than one room, whether or l on and after September 1, 2004, operators of not a suite, if such rooms are not otherwise Give the Department any information missing hotels having fewer than ten (10) rooms and rented separately, the daily rent per room is to from your return, operators of fewer than ten (10) furnished be determined by dividing the entire rent by the l Call the Department for information about the apartments or furnished living units may file their number of rooms for which the charge is made processing of your return or the status of your returns on an annual basis covering the twelve- (see "room" defined above). For example, if the refund or payment(s), and month period ending on the last day of February. entire charge for a suite of three rooms is $90 That return will be due on the subsequent March per day, the charge for each room is considered l Respond to certain notices that you have 20 each year. An operator of furnished to be $30. Beginning on or after December 1, shared with the preparer about math errors, apartments or other furnished living units 1994 and before March 1, 2009, the per room offsets, and return preparation. The notices intended for single-family use subject to the tax tax is $1.50 plus an additional 5% of the rent. will not be sent to the preparer. and located at multiple addresses but registered Beginning on or after March 1, 2009 and You are not authorizing the preparer to receive under a single certificate should file a single before December 1, 2019, except for any refund check, bind you to anything (including return covering all such apartments or living units occupancies beginning on or after December 1, any additional tax liability), or otherwise represent by attaching to the return a schedule showing 2013 and before December 20, 2013, the per you before the Department. The authorization each apartment and its street address. room tax remains at $1.50 but the additional tax cannot be revoked, however, the authorization rate has been raised to 5.875% of the rent. (See All returns, except refund returns: will automatically expire twelve (12) months after instructions for Line 5). the due date (without regard to any extensions) for NYC Department of Finance filing this return. Failure to check the box will be Hotel Tax 2) Where a room occupancy is for less than a full deemed a denial of authority. P.O. Box 5564 day and a person pays less than the rent for a full Binghamton, NY 13902-5564 day, the tax is the same amount as would be due |
Instructions for Form NYC-HTX Page 4 SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS a) any amount of tax paid to the Department of Additional penalties may be imposed on any Finance in the preceding period and refunded underpayment of the tax due to negligence or LINES a, b, c, d and e must be completed by all in the current period to a person who has fraud. Officers of a corporate operator and operators. Room remarketers are not required to become a permanent resident; partners in a partnership that is an operator are complete these lines. personally liable for the tax collected or required b) any amount of tax paid to the Department of Special Condition Codes Finance with respect to rent that has been to be collected by the corporation or partnership At the time this form is being published, there are determined to be worthless, but only if the and are subject to the above penalties. no applicable special condition codes. Check the refund is requested within one year from the Finance website for updated special condition date of payment; LINE 18 - TOTAL REMITTANCE DUE codes. If applicable, enter the two character code c) if the total rents on schedule A, line 5 Add lines 13, 16 and 17 to obtain the total in the box provided on the form. includes rent for occupancies that occurred on amount due. Make your check payable to the or after December 1, 2013 and before order of: LINES b AND c - December 20, 2013, a credit consisting of NYC Department of Finance For operators of furnished apartments or other .875% of the total rents due for occupancies furnished living units located at different street beginning on or after December 1, 2013 and To receive proper credit, you must enter your addresses, enter on this line and line c the number before December 20, 2013; and correct Employer Identification Number or Social of rooms in all locations. d) any other credit allowable by law or Security Number and your Account ID number LINE d - regulation, provided a detailed explanation is on your tax return and remittance. If you are an operator renting out apartments or attached to the return. Room remarketers living units under a single certificate of authority applying for a credit or refund for tax paid to a DID YOUR MAILING ADDRESS CHANGE? in more than one building attach an addendum to hotel operator for occupancies that do not If so, please visit us at nyc.gov/finance and click this form showing the name, if any, and the qualify as exempt, or to another room “Update Name and Address” in the blue address of each building in which you rent out remarketer, must include a schedule with the “Business Taxes” box. This will bring you to the apartments or living units under a single name, address and amount paid to each hotel “Business Taxes Change of Name, Address or certificate of authority on a transient basis and the or room remarketer. In the alternative, a room Account Information”. Update as required. number of rooms at each location. remarketer may attach a summary schedule and make all details available to the ASSISTANCE LINE e - Commissioner of Finance upon request. For further information, call 311, If calling from The taxpayer must enter the facility address if it outside the five NYC boroughs, call 212-NEW- is different from the address entered in the box at LINE 16 - INTEREST YORK (212-639-9675). the top of page one of the form. If the tax is not paid on or before the due date, interest must be paid on the amount of the PRIVACY ACT NOTIFICATION The Federal Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, requires SCHEDULE A - COMPUTATION OF TAX underpayment from the due date to the date paid. agencies requesting Social Security Numbers to inform individuals from whom they seek this information as to whether For information regarding interest rates, visit the LINE A - PAYMENT compliance with the request is voluntary or mandatory, why the Finance website at nyc.gov/finance or call 311. If Enter the amount of payment remitted with this request is being made and how the information will be used. calling from outside of the five NYC boroughs, return. The disclosure of Social Security Numbers for taxpayers is please call 212-NEW-YORK (212-639-9675). mandatory and is required by section 11-102.1 of the LINES 1 TO 4 - RENT CATEGORIES Interest amounting to less than $1 need not be paid. Administrative Code of the City of New York. Such numbers disclosed on any report or return are requested for tax Enter in the proper lines for each rental category administration purposes and will be used to facilitate the LINE 17 - PENALTY processing of tax returns and to establish and maintain a the total number of taxable occupancies of rooms uniform system for identifying taxpayers who are or may be a) If you fail to file a return when due, add to the or apartments during the period covered by the subject to taxes administered and collected by the Department tax (less any payments made on or before the return. of Finance, and, as may be required by law, or when the due date) 5% for each month or partial month taxpayer gives written authorization to the Department of Finance for another department, person, agency or entity to the form is late, up to 25%, unless the failure LINE 5 - ADDITIONAL TAX DUE have access (limited or otherwise) to the information contained is due to reasonable cause. in his or her return. Enter the total amount of rents or charges for taxable occupancies during this tax period. Multiply b) If the return is filed more than 60 days late, this by the tax rate. Effective for all occupancies the above late filing penalty will not be less occurring on or after March 1, 2009 and before than the lesser of 1) $100 or 2) 100% of the December 1, 2023, including occupancies occurring amount required to be shown an the return on or after December 1, 2013 and before December less any payment or credits claimed. 20, 2013, use the 5.875% tax rate. (See highlight on page 1 for additional information regarding the c) If you fail to pay the tax shown on the return by period from December 1, 2013 to December 20, the prescribed filing date, add to the tax (less 2013). any payments made) 1/2% for each month or partial month the payment is late up to 25%, LINE 7 - TOTAL TAX COLLECTED unless the failure is due to reasonable cause. Enter the amount of tax collected or required to be d) The total of the additional charges in (a) and collected according to the hotel’s books and records. (c) may not exceed 5% for any one month except as provided in (b). LINE 9 - REFUNDS AND/OR CREDITS If you claim not to be liable for these Enter the sum of the following and attach a additional charges, a statement in support of schedule to the return and explain on a rider: your claim should be attached to the return. |