Feature breakdown
BnbTaxes is not a generic ledger. It is a short-term-rental organizer built around classification, record context, review flags, and a CPA-ready export.
Public workflow
Each feature is designed to preserve context. The app should tell a clear story about what happened at each property, where the numbers came from, and which questions still need judgment.
Start with the federal rental-tax questions that change everything else. BnbTaxes separates reporting form analysis from passive-loss analysis so the result is easier to review.
Bring platform payouts and direct-booking income into a property-specific ledger without pretending every channel works the same way.
Record ordinary rental expenses, mixed-use allocations, evidence, and recurring vendor patterns in one workflow.
Track guest nights, personal use, maintenance, and blocked days because usage facts can change classification and deductibility.
See the year as a reviewable record trail instead of a pile of transactions. Reports emphasize readiness, open questions, and explainable totals.
Generate a practical handoff packet for a tax professional. The export keeps source context and open questions visible instead of flattening everything into totals.
The product is honest about integration depth: CSV import for platform data, manual entry for direct bookings, and export files your CPA can use.
The value is not just that each tool exists. It is that the same property and tax-year context follows the host from classification through export.
Classifier
Answers become a classification record with confidence, source references, and flags where the facts need professional review.
Organizer
Income, expenses, usage days, assets, and evidence are attached to the correct property and tax year.
Review flags
Mixed use, short stays, substantial services, passive activity, depreciation, and estimated-tax questions stay visible.
Export
The CPA packet gives the totals, but also preserves the reasoning and unresolved questions behind those totals.
Short-term rental tax prep often turns on a handful of facts. BnbTaxes keeps those facts in front of the host before the export is generated.
Schedule E, Schedule C, and 14-day exclusion branches are explained with conservative confidence states.
Guest nights, personal use, maintenance days, and blocked days can be reviewed before classification or export.
Expenses can carry a rental percentage so shared costs do not appear as unexplained totals.
Income views separate gross receipts, platform fees, cleaning fees, and net payouts where data supports it.
Review flags identify uncertainty instead of hiding it inside a summary number.
Export structure is built for review and preparation, not for pretending the app files a return.