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Short-term rental rules in Cooper Landing, AK
How Cooper Landing regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here are subject to registration, a lodging tax, or a small number of operating rules.
- No STR-specific licensing, registration, or permit process
- No zoning supply device — Cooper Landing is unincorporated, has only an advisory planning commission, and is not under Kenai Peninsula Borough local-option zoning
- Only in-force device touching STRs is the areawide borough 3% consumer sales tax on rents, which reaches transient/short-term rental stays
- Borough bed/lodging tax remains a tabled proposal, not enacted
Based on: Kenai Peninsula Borough Code § 5.18.100.A (Sales Tax; codified Sales Tax Code rev. 9/6/2022, orig. Ord. No. 84-74
Summary of the rule
There is levied by the borough a consumer's sales tax of up to 3 percent maximum rate on all retail sales, on all rents, and on all services made or rendered within the borough, measured by the gross sales price of the seller.
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