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  • Data sharing and tax enforc...
    Garz, Marcel; Schneider, Andrea

    Regional science and urban economics, 07/2023, Letnik: 101
    Journal Article

    Airbnb and other home-sharing platforms have been facing increasing regulation over the past years, mainly in the form of restricting short-term rentals through day caps. In contrast, as one of the first countries in the world, Denmark applied a collaborative strategy: In 2018, the government negotiated an agreement with Airbnb about the transmission of income data from the platform to the tax agency. We analyze how this data-sharing agreement affected hosts' behavior on the platform, using a difference-in-differences approach with Sweden as a counterfactual. We find that the agreement reduced hosts’ propensity to list property on the platform by 14%, while increasing listing prices by 11%. Our results indicate that platform exits were mostly limited to single-property hosts. In contrast, hosts with many properties and those in areas with initially low Airbnb penetration made their rental objects more often available and managed to increase the number of bookings. Overall, the findings imply that the data-sharing agreement not only helped to increase tax compliance but also led to a commercialization and spatial re-organization of short-term renting in Denmark. •We analyze a data-sharing agreement between the Danish government and Airbnb.•The agreement reduced hosts' listing propensity and increased listing prices.•Hosts with multiple properties increased the availability of their objects.•Rental activities shifted from areas with high to low Airbnb penetration.•The results are in line with the notion that tax compliance increased.