Boynton Beach Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Boynton Beach and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and nobody at City Hall is going to tell you a booking has to run seven nights, or thirty, or any other number. Boynton Beach sits in Palm Beach County on Florida's southeast coast, and state law bars a Florida city from banning vacation rentals or dictating how long and how often you rent one out.

The catch is that the city licenses them seriously. Since the rules took effect in October 2023, every short-term rental here needs a Certificate of Use and Occupancy and a Business Tax Receipt. Earning one costs $525, a city inspection, a measured floor plan, a signed agreement with the police department, and a local responsible party who lives close enough to be at the door within an hour. Then you do the inspection again every single year.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly: what the code requires in 2026, what the city and the county each charge, the three layers of tax riding on a nightly stay, how fast the penalties escalate, and who to call when your property doesn't fit the mold. Everything below comes from Boynton Beach's own codified ordinances, the Palm Beach County Tax Collector and Florida statute, checked in July 2026. Before any of it, run the property through BNBCalc first, because a $525 license and a yearly inspection only pay for themselves if the nightly revenue clears them.

What are short term rental (Airbnb, VRBO) regulations in Boynton Beach, Florida?

Before the money makes sense, you need to know whether your rental even counts as one, and Boynton Beach draws that line by frequency rather than by zone.

Under Sec. 13-93 of the city code sets the threshold, and it's a count rather than a category. A unit qualifies once it's "advertised and/or rented to transient occupants more than three (3) times in a calendar year," in each case "for periods of less than thirty (30) days or one (1) calendar month." That reaches condominium and cooperative units plus any single-family, two-family, three-family or four-family dwelling.

So rent a fourth time at 29 nights or fewer and you're an STR. Stop at three and you aren't.

That test isn't a local invention, mind you. Florida rewrote the same transient line statewide in 2025 through Chapter 2025-113, better known as SB 606, which counts consecutive days instead of calendar months, so the city and the state now describe the threshold in nearly identical words.

Sitting above both is Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7)(b), which says a local law "may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals." It grandfathers only ordinances adopted on or before June 1, 2011.

Boynton Beach wrote its rental housing article in 2023, twelve years past that cutoff, so it gets no grandfather protection at all. You can see the effect in the text. Read the whole article and there's no minimum-night rule, no annual cap on bookings, and no residential district where short-term rentals are simply forbidden. What the city built instead is a licensing and inspection regime, which is the one lever state law left it.

Sec. 13-94 then runs that regime across nearly every kind of housing stock in the city: single-family dwellings attached and detached, two-family dwellings, individual multi-family units including condominiums, and mobile homes. Where the Land Development Regulations conflict with the article, the article wins.

One rule does narrow the business model, though, and it's worth reading before you buy anything. Sec. 13-95 requires whole-unit rental and leaves no wiggle room: "In no event may an individual sleeping room be offered for rent."

An owner who lives on the property may still lease out part of the unit, or a pre-existing accessory dwelling unit. For an absentee owner, though, renting out a single spare bedroom isn't on the table. Your HOA or condo association is a separate gate again, and the city doesn't administer that one for you.

Starting a Short Term Rental Business in Boynton Beach

Assuming the property clears both of those gates, meaning the city will license it and your association documents don't quietly forbid the whole idea, the order you tackle things in still matters more than most owners expect. Three different governments want something from you, and two of them want it before Boynton Beach will issue anything.

Start with the state. Florida requires a vacation rental license from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation for any dwelling or condo unit rented transiently, under Fla. Stat. § 509.241, issued by the Division of Hotels and Restaurants as either Vacation Rental Dwelling or Vacation Rental Condo.

The Division's lodging fee schedule prices a new single-unit license at a $50 application fee plus $170 for a full year, or $90 if you apply within six months of the next renewal period, with a $10 Hospitality Education Program fee that never gets prorated. That state license isn't paperwork you can chase later, since Sec. 13-9 lets the Director of Development issue a city certificate only once "proof of occupational or professional certification or licensure is provided when such certifications or licenses are required under state law."

Next comes Palm Beach County, which wants two separate things. One is a tourist development tax account with the Tax Collector. The other is a short-term rental Local Business Tax Receipt for each rental unit, required under the county's Tourist Development Ordinance at Chapter 17, Article III, Sec. 17-117. One unit, one receipt, and it's a different document from the city's.

Only then does the city application make sense. It runs through the SagesGov portal that Boynton Beach uses for permits and business tax filings, under the Residential Rental application type.

Do keep in mind that the city's Business Tax unit says outright that it verifies state licensing, naming the Department of Business and Professional Regulation among the agencies it checks. The same page adds that "all new business locations are inspected to ensure compliance with life/safety, building, environmental and zoning code requirements." Nothing about that sequence is optional, and skipping to the end just gets your file returned.

The other thing to settle early is how many people you can legally sleep, because that number drives the whole pro forma. Boynton caps overnight occupancy at two persons per sleeping room plus two, up to ten in a unit, and a city inspector confirms the bedroom count and the room sizes rather than taking your listing's word for it. A three-bedroom therefore sleeps eight, not twelve.

Since a later change to bedroom count, maximum occupancy, parking or ownership forces an entirely new application under Sec. 13-94, make sure you settle the layout before you furnish, not after. For how all this fits the rest of the state, our Florida statewide short-term rental guide covers the preemption picture in more depth.

Short Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Boynton Beach

That occupancy inspection comes bundled into the license fee, which is where the real numbers start. Sec. 13-94 sets three non-refundable charges specific to short-term rentals, and each one is per unit:

• Initial application, including the first city inspection: $525.00
• Renewal application, including the first city inspection: $325.00
• Reinspection, if you fail the first one: $100.00

Those are application fees rather than the business tax itself. The tax lands separately under Sec. 13-4, where rental property of four units or less, single-family rentals included, is charged $4.05 per room with a $37.04 minimum. Small money against the $525, yet it's a separate line on the invoice.

Now for the part that catches new owners out. The license year is fixed to the city's calendar, not to yours.

Sec. 13-10 has receipts sold from August 1, due on or before September 30, and expiring the following September 30. A certificate issued in June therefore buys you roughly one summer before renewal comes around.

Let it slip and Sec. 13-11 adds a 10% delinquency penalty for October plus 5% for every month after that, capped at 25%. Drift past January 30 and Sec. 13-6 turns the late renewal into a full Code Compliance inspection, interior and exterior.

Renewal isn't a rubber stamp either. Sec. 13-96 states that "annual renewal of the STR requires the passing of a new inspection by City staff," which is stricter than the biennial cadence the code applies to ordinary residential rentals. Miss two scheduled inspection appointments and Sec. 13-11 makes you re-apply for the inspection outright.

Four more provisions are worth knowing before you spend the $525, because each one has stranded somebody:

• Certificates don't transfer. Sec. 13-6 issues exactly one Certificate of Use and Occupancy per parcel, keyed to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's property control number, and says plainly that it "is not transferable." Buy a running short-term rental and you start the application from scratch.
• Unpaid city debt blocks you. Where a property carries unpaid fines, fees or code liens, the city won't issue a certificate or even conduct the inspection until everything is paid, interest and assessable costs included, and every code violation is back in compliance.
• Old approvals died with the ordinance. A rental the city approved before these regulations arrived "cannot be automatically renewed," so anyone operating on a pre-2023 residential approval had to file fresh.
• Housing a relative doesn't exempt you by default. Where the owner doesn't live at the dwelling and somebody else does, a relative included, Sec. 13-6 presumes it's being rented and requires the certificate. You can rebut that with an exemption affidavit, though you have to file one every year.

How long does approval take? The city doesn't publish a processing time, and I couldn't find one in the code. Airbnb's own Boynton Beach hosting page describes payment notification arriving within three to five business days and an inspection scheduled within ten days, which is the only timeline I found anywhere, so treat it as a platform's summary rather than a city commitment.

Required Documents for Boynton Beach Short Term Rentals

Since none of those fees come back if the application fails, it's worth getting the file complete the first time. The form itself is short, and assembling what hangs off it is what takes the week.

• Proof of your state DBPR vacation rental license, for the specific unit, in the Dwelling or Condo classification.
• A separate application for every unit, even where you own several in the same building.
• An affidavit of compliance with everything in the article, endorsed by the property owner and the Local Responsible Party together.
• A written Local Responsible Party designation on the city's form, with a valid address and phone number. The LRP has to be at least 25 years old and, for a short-term rental specifically, must live in Broward, Palm Beach or Martin County so that anything needing an on-site presence gets handled "within approximately one (1) hour." You can name yourself if you meet that test.
• A detailed, legible sketch covering both floor plan and site plan: bedroom count and size, the pool and whatever forms its required safety barrier, storage for waste and recreational vehicles, and parking spaces drawn and measured against the minimums.
• A fully executed agreement with the Boynton Beach Police Department, authorizing officers to address trespassing matters on your behalf.
• A list of every venue and website the unit is listed on, which Sec. 13-96 turns into a continuing obligation rather than a one-time disclosure. Add a channel later and the city expects to hear about it.

Don't forget the change-of-designation rule that rides along with the LRP. Under Sec. 13-6 you have ten business days, in writing, to tell the Development Department whenever your local responsible party changes, and failing to keep one in place at all is itself a code violation.

Boynton Beach Short Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all that and are able to take your first booking, there's still tax to deal with, and the Boynton Beach stack changed at the start of 2026. Palm Beach County's sales tax rate dropped, which means a guide written in 2024 will quote you a number half a point too high.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Florida sales tax	6.0%	Florida Department of Revenue
Palm Beach school capital outlay surtax	0.5%	Florida Department of Revenue
Palm Beach County tourist development tax	6.0%	Palm Beach County Tax Collector
Combined on a stay of six months or less	12.5%	Two agencies, two returns

The 0.5% piece is new. Florida's Department of Revenue explains in Tax Information Publication 25A01-15, issued December 1, 2025, that "beginning January 1, 2026, the total state and local sales and use tax rate for Palm Beach County will decrease from 7% to 6.5%." Voters approved a school capital outlay surtax in November 2024, and the county repealed its 1% infrastructure surtax through Ordinance 2025-008.

The tourist development tax is unchanged at 6%, and Florida's Form DR-15TDT lists Palm Beach as a county that collects its own local option tax rather than routing it through the state.

That split is the single most expensive thing to misunderstand here. Airbnb's Boynton Beach responsible hosting page says the platform "collects and remits all state-administered taxes on behalf of its hosts," while operators in Boynton Beach "are responsible to collect and remit applicable local taxes."

The Palm Beach County Tax Collector puts it from the other side, and more bluntly still. The host has to collect and remit the tourist development tax, since "Online platforms do not remit TDT to the Palm Beach County Tax Collector."

So the 6.5% gets handled for you on Airbnb bookings, whereas the 6% tourist development tax is yours to collect and file, every month.

Watch the filing rhythm on that county piece, because it's monthly rather than quarterly. Returns are due on the 1st and go delinquent after the 20th, with penalties and interest behind that. A month with no bookings still needs a return, and the Tax Collector is explicit that you "must file $0.00 to report no rental activity."

The tax reaches mandatory charges too, so your cleaning fee and pet fee sit inside the taxable base rather than outside it. Two smaller items round out the picture: the county's short-term rental Local Business Tax Receipt renews annually alongside everything else, and Florida levies no personal income tax, so rental profit shows up on your federal return and nowhere at state level.

Boynton Beach Wide Short Term Rental Rules

Taxes are the part you can automate. The operating rules are the part a neighbor can photograph, and Boynton Beach wrote a lot of them.

Sec. 13-96 governs short-term rentals specifically, while Sec. 13-95 covers every residential rental in the city, so you're living under both at once. On headcount, the caps are unusually specific:

• Overnight occupancy is two persons per sleeping room plus two, to a maximum of ten in a unit, with bedroom count and room sizes confirmed by a city inspector.
• Gatherings may not exceed one and a half times the registered maximum occupancy shown on your certificate, and can never exceed fifteen people regardless of how many bedrooms you have.
• Up to four children under ten are excluded from that tabulation.
• Any registered guest under 21 means a registered guest aged at least 25 has to be present at all times.

Then come the physical requirements, which is what the inspector walks around checking. Hard-wired emergency lighting at the primary ingress and egress of each inhabitable structure. A portable 2A:10B:C dry chemical fire extinguisher on every floor, installed and maintained to NFPA 10, mounted on a wall in an open common area or clearly marked where it's enclosed. Any pool, spa or hot tub compliant with Chapter 515 of the Florida Statutes, the Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act. And the dwelling itself meeting current Florida Building Code minimums.

Parking gets its own rule, and it generates complaints faster than almost anything else. Every car has to sit in an approved off-street space or the driveway, never on a swale, lawn, landscaped area, sidewalk or the public right-of-way. Marked on-street spaces are the one exception, yet even there, right-of-way parking overnight is prohibited outright. Overnight runs from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., which the code defines rather than leaving to interpretation.

You also have to post an information packet near the entrance where guests can see it, and it's more than a house-rules card. Sec. 13-95 names eight items:

• The property address.
• The Local Responsible Party's name, address, phone number and email.
• The maximum occupancy, with registered guests distinguished from visitors.
• The maximum number of approved vehicles, plus the site plan showing those spaces.
• The waste rules, including how long containers may stay curbside.
• The nearest hospital and police station, with both 911 and the non-emergency number.
• A legible copy of your Business Tax Receipt and Certificate of Use and Occupancy.
• A legible copy of the chapter itself.

Three ongoing duties then sit on the Local Responsible Party, and they're real work rather than a mailbox. That person receives service of any violation, acts as the contact for neighbor complaints against your guests, and visits the unit at least weekly to confirm it still meets the property maintenance standards.

Advertising is policed as well. Your listings have to match the certificate, particularly on occupancy, and each one has to reference the approved Certificate of Use and Occupancy. A listing quietly advertising twelve sleepers when the certificate says eight is the easiest violation in the whole article to prove.

Two quieter prohibitions round it out. Sec. 13-95 bars any commercial or non-residential activity at a rental, including a second Business Tax Receipt at the same property, and it makes occupancy by a sexual offender or predator unlawful. Guests are also bound by the city's ordinary noise standards, so a party that would draw a complaint from a long-term tenant draws one here too.

Does Boynton Beach Strictly Enforce STR Rules? Is Boynton Beach Airbnb Friendly?

Friendly in law, strict in operation, and that combination is fairer than it sounds. The city can't ban you and hasn't tried, yet Sec. 13-97 hands enforcement a set of teeth most Florida cities don't have.

The headline number is $15,000. The City Commission formally declared maximum occupancy violations and non-residential or commercial use to be "irreparable or irreversible in nature," which lets the Special Magistrate issue fines up to fifteen thousand dollars per violation.

The same section also strips away the usual escape hatch, since fines imposed under it "shall not be subject to reduction by the Special Magistrate." Elsewhere in the city code a fine reduction hearing is a normal thing to ask for. Here it isn't available.

Each day a violation continues counts as a separate violation, with occupancy breaches the one exception, treated as a single violation for the rental period. Beyond fines, the Development Director can suspend your certificate on a ladder that gets steep quickly:

• Second violation inside twelve months: up to 30 days.
• Third violation: up to 180 days.
• Fourth violation: up to 365 days.
• Each violation after that: another 30 days, to a total of 395.

You can't rent during a suspension, you can't file a renewal application during one either, and operating anyway draws a daily fine of up to $1,000. A citation under the Florida Building Code or the Florida Fire Prevention Code suspends the certificate five working days later, and it stays suspended until a re-inspection clears the problem.

Revocation is the end of the road. More than two violations in twelve consecutive months involving maximum-persons standards, the missing supervising adult, or advertising inconsistent with the article, and the certificate can go. So can a single felony or misdemeanor offense on the property that injured an occupant or visitor, or that involved a drug charge. After a revocation the property itself is ineligible for short-term rental approval for twelve months, which means selling it doesn't reset the clock for the buyer.

Skipping the license entirely is worse, not better. Under Sec. 13-16, operating without the required certificate and receipt adds a penalty of 25% of the full-year fees on top of the fees themselves. An owner who lets a business run on the property without a valid current certificate faces "a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per day and or sixty (60) days in jail" for each day it operates. Leave the certificate fees unpaid past 150 days and another $250 a day starts running from the 151st.

How does that play out in practice? Complaints drive it, the way they do nearly everywhere. Boynton Beach Code Enforcement takes reports at 561-742-6000 and notes on its own page that "issues may no longer be submitted anonymously," which cuts both ways: a neighbor has to put a name to a complaint, and you'll generally learn whose it was. Uncorrected violations go before the Special Magistrate, who sits on the third Wednesday of each month in a hearing open to the public.

Be aware of one honest gap in all this. The city publishes no count of licensed short-term rentals and no enforcement statistics I could locate, so nobody can tell you what share of Boynton listings are actually compliant. What I can tell you is that an annual re-inspection makes long-term hiding harder than a register-once system does. Whether the returns justify that friction is a different question, and the Palm Beach market page is where I'd go for the revenue side of it before deciding.

How to Start a Short Term Rental Business in Boynton Beach

Working through the sequence out of order is how people lose the $525, so the ordering below is deliberate. The early steps are the ones that tell you whether the later ones are worth paying for.

1. Check the private restrictions first, before anything public. Your HOA covenants, condo declaration or deed restrictions can prohibit short-term rentals even where the city would license you, and Boynton Beach has no role in enforcing or waiving them.
2. Confirm the property type and the layout you'll register. Bedroom count sets your occupancy, and a later change to bedrooms, occupancy, parking or ownership forces a brand new application under Sec. 13-94.
3. Get the state license. Apply to the DBPR Division of Hotels and Restaurants for a Vacation Rental Dwelling or Vacation Rental Condo license, budgeting $50 plus $170 for a full year and the $10 education fee.
4. Register with Palm Beach County. Open a tourist development tax account with the Tax Collector and apply for the county short-term rental Local Business Tax Receipt, one per unit.
5. Name your Local Responsible Party. Age 25 or over, resident in Broward, Palm Beach or Martin County, and genuinely willing to visit weekly and take the 2 a.m. call.
6. Assemble the file. The affidavit of compliance signed by both of you, the measured floor and site plan, the executed police trespass agreement, and the list of every platform you'll advertise on.
7. Apply through SagesGov and pay the $525. It's non-refundable, so make sure the file is complete rather than hopeful.
8. Pass the inspection. Emergency lighting, extinguishers on every level, pool barrier, parking, and no unpermitted work. A failure costs $100 to re-inspect.
9. Post the eight required notices inside the unit and add your Certificate of Use and Occupancy reference to every listing before the first guest arrives.
10. Diarize September 30 permanently. Renewal costs $325, it requires passing a fresh inspection, and slipping past January 30 pulls in a full Code Compliance inspection on top.

Who to Contact in Boynton Beach about Short Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever step you get stuck on, five offices between them own the whole process. Knowing which one holds your particular question saves a lot of time on hold.

City Licensing, Certificates and Business Tax

The Business Tax unit, part of the Development Services Department, handles the Certificate of Use and Occupancy, the Business Tax Receipt, and renewals.

• Address: 100 E Ocean Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33435
• Phone: 561-742-6000
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday to Friday 4 to 5 p.m. for inquiries and pickups only
• Apply and renew: the SagesGov portal, under Residential Rental

One practical note from the city's own Business Tax Receipts page: submittals and re-submittals aren't accepted after 4 p.m.

Inspections and Permits

The Building Department runs the inspections your certificate depends on, plus any permit work the inspector flags.

• Address: 100 E Ocean Avenue, City Hall 1st Floor, Boynton Beach, FL 33435
• Phone: 561-742-6000
• Hours: the same schedule as above, per the Building Department page
• Permits and inspections: requested through SagesGov

Complaints, Violations and the Special Magistrate

Code Enforcement receives short-term rental complaints and takes uncorrected violations to the Special Magistrate.

• Address: 100 E Ocean Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33435
• Phone: 561-742-6000
• Report an issue: through the Code Enforcement page, and remember that complaints can no longer be filed anonymously
• Hearings: the third Wednesday of each month, open to the public

County Tourist Development Tax and Business Tax Receipt

The Palm Beach County Tax Collector administers the 6% tourist development tax and the county short-term rental Local Business Tax Receipt.

• Address: Governmental Center, 301 North Olive Avenue, 3rd Floor, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
• Phone: (561) 355-2264, with a tourist development tax line on (561) 355-3547
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Online: the tourist development tax page carries the registration portal and the monthly return schedule

State Vacation Rental Licensing

The DBPR Division of Hotels and Restaurants issues the license that has to exist before the city will issue anything.

• Address: 2601 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, FL 32399-1011
• Phone: (850) 487-1395
• Email: [email protected]
• Online: the Division's licensing pages carry the application and the current fee schedule

What do Airbnb Hosts in Boynton Beach on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those five phone numbers describe the official process. What owners actually complain about is narrower, and it's mostly not the city. One caveat before I summarize, though: Reddit blocks automated reading, so I won't pretend to have surveyed threads I couldn't open. What follows is my read of the recurring themes across the forums I could reach, so do weigh it accordingly.

• The HOA is the gate people hit first, not the ordinance. On BiggerPockets, a local agent answering an investor's Palm Beach County short-term rental question says "the way to go is Single Family for STR," and warns that "HOA rules changing rapidly in our area so just be sure you or your agent does their research." That matches what the city code implies by omission, since Boynton Beach licenses condominiums and multi-family units happily while your association may still say no.
• The Local Responsible Party requirement quietly filters out remote owners. Someone aged 25 or over, living in one of three counties, visiting weekly and reachable within an hour is a real staffing commitment. Out-of-state owners generally solve it by hiring a manager, which is a line item worth pricing before you buy rather than after.
• The tax split confuses almost everyone at least once. Hosts routinely assume Airbnb handles everything because it handles the state portion. The 6% county tourist development tax is not handled, it's monthly, and it accrues quietly until the Tax Collector notices.
• The annual inspection is the thing veterans mention and newcomers don't. Plenty of Florida cities register you once and then leave you alone. Passing a fresh city inspection every year, with $100 riding on each failure, is the kind of recurring friction that never shows up in a first-year spreadsheet.

Nobody I read argues that Boynton Beach is hostile to short-term rentals, which it isn't. The argument is about whether the compliance load is worth carrying on a single property, and that's a math question rather than a legal one. Investors comparing counties tend to end up looking at Orange County or the Gulf coast markets like Collier County, where the rules are different again.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Boynton Beach in 2026?

Yes. Boynton Beach permits short-term rentals across its residential housing stock, including single-family homes, two-family homes, condominiums and mobile homes. You need a Florida DBPR vacation rental license, a Palm Beach County tourist development tax account and Local Business Tax Receipt, then a city Certificate of Use and Occupancy and Business Tax Receipt. The city application costs $525 including the first inspection, and the whole unit must be rented rather than an individual bedroom.

How much does a Boynton Beach short-term rental license cost?

The city charges a non-refundable $525 initial application fee, which includes the first city inspection, and $325 to renew each year, again including an inspection. A failed inspection costs $100 to redo. On top of that, the business tax itself runs $4.05 per room with a $37.04 minimum, and the state DBPR vacation rental license adds a $50 application fee plus $170 for a full year and a $10 education fee.

Is there a minimum night stay for short-term rentals in Boynton Beach?

No. Florida Statute 509.032(7)(b) bars a city from regulating the duration or frequency of vacation rentals unless its ordinance was adopted on or before June 1, 2011, and Boynton Beach adopted its rules in 2023. Its code sets no minimum stay and no annual booking cap. A property only becomes a regulated short-term rental once it's advertised or rented to transient occupants more than three times in a calendar year for periods under thirty days.

Who collects the tourist development tax on a Boynton Beach Airbnb?

You do, not the platform. Palm Beach County's 6% tourist development tax applies to stays of six months or less, and the county Tax Collector states that online platforms do not remit it. Returns are due monthly on the 1st and go delinquent after the 20th, and a zero-revenue month still needs a return filed. Airbnb does collect the state-administered taxes, which in Palm Beach County total 6.5% as of January 2026.

How many guests can stay in a Boynton Beach short-term rental?

Overnight occupancy is capped at two persons per sleeping room plus two, to a maximum of ten people in one unit, with the bedroom count and room sizes verified by a city inspector. Up to four children under age ten are excluded from that count. Gatherings can reach one and a half times your registered occupancy but never more than fifteen people. If any registered guest is under 21, a registered guest aged 25 or older must be present at all times.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.