Airbnb pays Paris €1.2m in tourist taxes

Online rental website hands over first instalment after striking agreement with city authorities to collect levy on each night's stay

The accommodation rental web platform Airbnb - which last year agreed to start charging users in Paris a tourist tax - handed over nearly a1.2m (900,000 ) to city authorities in the last quarter of 2015, the municipality said.

Airbnb reached an agreement with the Paris authorities in 2015 and since October has charged users a tourist tax of 83 euro cents per night, which it then passes on to the local authority.