Effective February 2024, new applications for Vacation Rental Registration Certificates will be accepted though a new service with GovOS. This new service will allow users to:

• Apply for a Vacation Rental Certificate online, as well as upload supporting documents and make payment once you are completed with the application.
• Update and maintain account information.
• Remit Transient Occupancy Tax monthly.
• Submit the required Contract Summaries before each short term occupancy. 

Please complete the following form - Vacation Rental Application Request Form - and staff will review and respond with the account code and activation code. This will allow access to the Vacation Rental Registration Certificate Application. Additionally, staff will confirm with the Agency that a new application request was received and add the property to the Agencies account. 

Effective May, 2024

 The Department will begin inviting all Agencies to use the online system. There are a few actions that need to be completed:

1. Agency will need to create a user profile in our online system with GovOS. You can register my visiting, https://palmspringsca.munirevs.com/
2. Once a user name is completed, you will not need to add your properties to your account. Our staff will do this. When promoted to add a business, skip to the business center. 
3. Email Vacation.Rentals@palmspringsca.gov and provide your agencies user name. This will allow staff to add your properties to your account. 
4. Once all your properties have been added to your agencies user account, you will then be able to:
   1.  Apply for a Vacation Rental Registration Certificate.
   2. Collect and remit tax for all properties using a "bulk file feature" monthly.
   3. Submit Contract Summaries for each property.

The GovOS system allows Agencies to bulk file transient occupancy tax for their associated properties.

• The Bulk Filing feature is used to complete multiple tax forms at once.
• It is designed to be a copy/paste from an excel workbook.
• All of the columns in Bulk Filing are sort-able, so if you sort Bulk Filing and your excel by account number, you will be able to copy everything into Bulk Filing in the correct columns.

Please note that if you are pasting from excel, the data will be pipe delimited, as excel is already pipe delimited. That is why it is recommended that you complete the tax forms in excel and then copy into Bulk Filing.

When you have pasted your tax data and verified that all your information is correct, press the orange Submit button to proceed to the checkout cart and pay your tax liability.

• How to use the bulk file tax remittance feature - Video

What is different?

Previously, agencies remitting Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) would remit such taxes using the City of Palm Springs online tax payment system with E-City Services. This allowed the ability to submit one payment for the agencies’ portfolio of properties. The agency would also need to submit a separate account of all revenues and costs on a per property basis, including without limitation transient occupancy taxes and the gross rent amounts used to calculate such taxes to the City of Palm Springs Tax and Revenue department.

With the new GovOS system, the Bulk File feature allows for the continuance of a one payment option and allows for the agent or representative to separately account all revenues and costs on a per property basis, including without limitation transient occupancy taxes and the gross rent amounts used to calculate such taxes.

How does the one TOT remittance and the ability to separately account such taxes in each account work?

1. Each property has a specific account number. This is the unique identifier for the property and is not related to any other property, user or account.
2. The TOT bulk file system allows users to take information from an excel worksheet and enter it into the specific area (please see how to video above) where the system auto populates into a specific format:
   1. Account Number| Due date| Total Rental Receipts| Less Exemptions
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4. As the data was copied and pasted from an excel spreadsheet into the paste box to the right of the green button, the system automatically calculates and distributes the revenues and tax for each specific property using the unique account number.
5. Once completed, the user can now continue and make one payment for all tax being remitted, all while, the transaction information will be filed separately for each account.

TO REQUEST A SPREADSHEET WITH YOUR VACATION RENTAL PROPERTIES AND THEIR SPECIFIC ACCOUNT CODES, PLEASE EMAIL VACATION.RENTALS@PALMSPRINGSCA.GOV

• How to use the bulk file tax remittance feature - Video

• Overview of the "Business Center" - Video

• How to submit a Contract Summary - Video