Short-term rental rules in Tasmania
Letting a home that isn’t your main residence as a short stay generally needs a planning permit. You must give booking platforms your permit or exemption details.
From official government and council sources · last checked 1 October 2026 · reviewed twice a month
What you need to know
- You don’t need a planning permit if you let your own home only while you’re on holiday or temporarily away, or if you live there and host guests in no more than four bedrooms.
- Otherwise, you generally need a planning permit before operating a short stay in residential and similar zones.
- Under the Short Stay Accommodation Act 2019, you must give booking platforms your permit number or exemption status, the full address, the number of guest bedrooms and whether it’s your main residence.
- In Hobart, check your body corporate rules if the property is in a strata scheme. The council charges a different rate for homes with a planning permit for visitor accommodation.
- There is no Tasmanian short stay levy. A proposed 5% levy (the Short Stay Levy Bill 2026) was defeated in the Legislative Council on 9 September 2026.
Coming up: In August 2026, Hobart City Council voted to seek a planning scheme change that would stop new whole-home short stays in most residential zones. Existing permits wouldn’t be affected. It needs Tasmanian Planning Commission approval before it applies.
Official sources
- Tasmanian State Planning Office: short stay accommodation fact sheet (September 2025)
- Consumer, Building and Occupational Services Tasmania: short and medium term visitor accommodation
- Tasmanian Department of Treasury and Finance: Short Stay Levy Bill
- City of Hobart: visitor accommodation (Airbnb)
General information, not legal advice. Councils add their own rules, and strata or owners corporations can too, so check with them before you list.
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