For travel-tech, hotel-booking, or expense-report builders: we published the 2026 US hotel/lodging tax breakdown as a free open dataset next to our sales-tax data.
Repo: https://github.com/receiptedit/us-sales-tax-2026 (see us-lodging-taxes-2026.csv)
For each state: name of the state-level lodging tax (Transient Occupancy Tax, TOT, tourism assessment, occupancy tax…) and its percentage.
API hooks lodging_taxes directly into every state response: https://receiptedit.com/api/sales-tax/california — check the lodging_taxes array.
Why this matters: Total hotel cost = room rate × (1 + state_sales_tax + sum(state_lodging_taxes) + city_lodging_taxes). Without the state-level lodging piece you underquote by 3-8% depending on the state. Florida has the largest state-level lodging burden.
Embeddable calculator: https://receiptedit.com/api/embed/sales-tax/california — the widget shows both sales tax AND lodging taxes.
Docs: https://receiptedit.com/developers
Product: https://receiptedit.com
MIT license. Free public API. Attribution appreciated.
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