Taxes and VAT
Reynt handles two distinct kinds of tax: VAT on the accommodation and services, and a separate city / tourist tax. They’re configured in different places and behave differently.
VAT settings
Section titled “VAT settings”Turn VAT on and choose how it’s displayed under Settings → Invoicing → Tax Settings:
- Enable Tax — the master switch. When off, all amounts are tax-free.
- Charge Tax to Customers — lets you keep customer prices tax-free (e.g. as a small business) while still applying tax on owner settlement invoices.
- Customer Tax Mode — Gross (prices include tax, the B2C default) or Net (tax added on top).
- Settlement Tax Mode (marketplace only) — Gross or Net (the B2B default) for owner settlement invoices.
- Tax Exemption Text Overrides — the notice printed on an invoice PDF when a tax exemption applies, which you can customize per reason and language.
Your own VAT number comes from the Legal Information config; the recipient’s VAT number is entered per invoice in the editor.
Country tax rates
Section titled “Country tax rates”VAT percentages live under Settings → Tax Rates (Country Tax Rates). Add a row per country with an Accommodation Rate (%) and a Services Rate (%) — for example 7% accommodation and 19% services in Germany. You can import common rates with Add from Catalog.
When an invoice is built, Reynt resolves the country (the listing’s country, falling back to your registered country), looks up the matching rates, and applies the accommodation or services rate to each line by its category. If tax is enabled but no rate exists for the country, invoice creation is blocked until you add one.
Tax exemptions and reverse charge
Section titled “Tax exemptions and reverse charge”Each invoice can carry a tax exemption reason — including reverse charge, export, exempt, small business, and margin scheme — which shows the appropriate 0% note on the PDF. For cross-border marketplace settlement invoices, Reynt sets this automatically from geography: same-country is domestic, another EU country is reverse charge, and a non-EU property is treated as export. You can also set the reason manually on any invoice.
Reynt does not validate VAT numbers against VIES — enter the recipient’s VAT number and choose the exemption reason yourself.
City / tourist tax
Section titled “City / tourist tax”Many cities levy a tourist tax on top of the accommodation price. This is a first-class model, configured per place (under Places → City / Tourist Tax) and overridable per listing.
A rule sets:
- Basis — per person per night, per night (a flat nightly amount), or percentage of the accommodation total.
- Rate tiers — one or more rates, each optionally scoped to a season (recurring date window) and to specific property types. The most specific matching tier applies for each night.
- Night cap — a maximum number of taxed nights (e.g. the first 10).
- Child exemption — an age below which guests aren’t counted.
- Collection mode — how the tax is settled:
- Added — charged on top of the booking; it appears as a Tourist tax line on the invoice and a Tourist tax leg on the payment.
- Included — already inside the accommodation price; shown for information only.
- Separate — disclosed to the guest but collected outside the booking (e.g. cash on arrival or a city portal), with an optional note explaining how to pay.
The tourist tax is shown to guests on the storefront during booking, and — for the added mode — it flows through to the invoice and the payment. In marketplace mode the added tourist tax is passed through to the owner and shown on the settlement invoice.