Tax collectors going after Netflix, Airbnb and Burning Man

Although tax collection season is six months away, a push to tax streaming media, app-based services, e-cigarettes, soda and music festivals is raging in the U.S. and abroad.

To make up for lost revenues from declining sales of physical media like DVDs and CDs, Chicago, Australia and Buenos Aires are among the government entities seeking to apply tax laws to streaming services from Netflix, Spotify, Hulu and Amazon Prime.

Airbnb is already paying lodging taxes from Amsterdam to Washington state, charging as much as 13 percent in Rhode Island, where a short-term room rental tax covers the lodging rental service and other such sites.

Even the elaborate Nevada-based Burning Man festival and Electric Daisy Carnival aren’t getting off the hook. As of 2015, both events are for the first time covered under the state’s live entertainment tax, which decreased from 10 percent to 9 percent this month.

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