Tax Setup (Legal Environment) by Property Administrator
Allow each property to setup and modify their own taxes rather than have Mews hard code these taxes into the system. US taxes are complicated with local, city, county, state, TBID, tourism and other taxes that change independently from each other. This aligns with channel manager setups. Additionally, have the ability to create tax periods for all taxes i.e. start date, end date so that the system can properly tax reservations that cross a tax period change. Have the liability sit with the property administrator who receives notification of future changes and should be held responsible for these changes. This would improve setup of properties and give more control to the property. Mews could validate but not responsible for taxes changes like other PMS systems.
Robert Smit
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Robert Smit
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In some locations, taxes are not static on an annual basis and can change frequently in some locals. Example is NYC that removed a room tax during the pandemic and will be bringing it back the end of August or possibly extended.
In other PMS systems Taxes can be given periods when they are affect now and in the future. Example is a hotel where the Local TOT will change from 12% to 14% on a specific date. OTA's and Channel Manager have Tax Periods that are setup in advance. Thus, those who are booking beyond the specific date would be charged the new Tax. We are not able to do this in Mews?