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Short-term rental rules in Tubac, AZ
How Tubac 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.
- Governing Santa Cruz County levies a 1.1% county transient lodging tax reaching STR stays
- No STR-specific county permit or registration process; Patagonia is the only jurisdiction in the county that regulates STRs
- Arizona A.R.S. §11-269.17 bars counties from prohibiting STRs — any residential-zone ban is preempted
- Tubac is an unincorporated CDP with no municipal government or municipal lodging tax
Based on: county_transient_lodging_tax
Summary of the rule
Transient Lodging (business code 025), Santa Cruz County (region STC) combined rate = 6.60%; state-only = 5.5%, i.e. a 1.1% county transient lodging tax component reaching transient/STR stays.
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