gross receipt taxes on rentals?

how many rentals do you have? If you run a hotel, timeshare or B & B you definitely have to pay gross reciepts tax.

i think the rule is anything over 5000 per month, which i normally wouldn't get, unless someone paid all at once.

This sounds like too serious an issue to trust to us! I suggest you call someone at the IRB who can give you a definitive answer, or at least where to look it up.

It gets a little complicated. Currently, if you make $150,000, or less per year, you are exempt on the first $5000 per month. Those numbers are in the process of changing. There was a bill passed (in favor of the landlord) just a couple of weeks ago. I don't remember the website address, but if you just google : Gross receipts tax, Virgin Islands, you will find the info. The new $ amounts may not have been updated on the website yet, but I think it's $9,000 per month.

The part that's complicated is, if you only make $150,000 per year, but say you make $80,000 of that in one month, you still only get the $5000 exemption for that month, so you pay 4% on $75,000. Every month is individual. The government website explains it pretty well.

I believe the new amounts are anyone making less than $225,000 per year gets a $9000/month exemption instead of the old $150,000/5000 exemption. It still has to be signed by the govenor per the Avis on Sunday/Monday.

I wouldn't imagine you'd count personal income against that $5000 allowance though, you don't pay gross receipts on income. Any indication that I should imagine this?

Sean