Wequetequock, Connecticut Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Wequetequock, Connecticut and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and you won't need a local permit to do it. Wequetequock is a village inside the Town of Stonington, over in New London County, and the town's Department of Planning and Land Use puts it in writing on its own short-term rental information flyer: "The Town of Stonington does not currently regulate short-term rentals."

Stonington means that, by the way, and it isn't a gap somebody forgot to close. It also isn't the same thing as having no rules, since the town's voters were handed a short-term rental ordinance back in March 2023 and turned it down, and the subject has been left alone ever since, even through a full zoning rewrite that took effect on March 4, 2026. What sits in place of a permit is ordinary zoning, an occupancy definition that caps unrelated guests at four, a 15% state room occupancy tax on every booking, and a small fire district levy that applies to Wequetequock addresses and to nowhere else in town.

So let's walk through what all of that means in practice in 2026: why there's no license to apply for, the zoning limits that still bite, the taxes and levies attached to a stay, how enforcement works once a neighbor picks up the phone, and who to call at 152 Elm Street when you get stuck on something. Every figure below comes from Stonington's own documents, Connecticut's statutes or the state revenue department, checked in July 2026. Before you spend a dollar on furniture, run the property through BNBCalc first.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Wequetequock

Before you get anywhere near a spreadsheet, though, it's worth being precise about which government you're dealing with, because this stretch of shoreline carries the Stonington name three separate ways and only one of them writes rules that reach your house.

Wequetequock isn't a municipality. It's a village and a fire district sitting inside the Town of Stonington, and that means no zoning commission of its own, no clerk of its own and no permit counter of its own. You can see the fire district in the state's own books, since Connecticut's Office of Policy and Management lists Stonington's Wequetequock Fire District as a taxing service district under the town, and the town's emergency management page lists the Wequetequock Fire Department at 860-599-8343. So everything else runs through Town Hall.

The Borough of Stonington is the one that trips people up, though, because it's a separate incorporated municipality down at the point, with a Planning and Zoning Commission of its own, and its rules do reach short-term stays. The Borough's zoning regulations already define a tourist home as an owner-occupied building offering between two and five guest rooms, and a full revision drafted in February 2026 goes further by naming a "Short Term Rental/Tourist Home" outright and barring accessory dwelling units from being used as one.

None of that touches Wequetequock, which sits several miles northeast of the Borough line. Make sure you know which side of that line your deed falls on before you borrow anyone's advice.

Back on the town side, the thing worth understanding is that Stonington's zoning code is a permissive list rather than a prohibition list. Section 4.2 of the Zoning Regulations says the uses listed in Sections 5 and 6 "shall be the only uses permitted or allowed," and that all others "are hereby prohibited and shall not be permitted by variance." That's the 29th edition, effective March 4, 2026.

Short-term rental appears nowhere in that list, so on a strict reading you could argue it isn't permitted at all, yet the Planning Department's flyer settles the question the practical way. It treats a rented house as what it is on the map: a dwelling, held to the same regulations as any other dwelling.

Which brings you to the one zoning limit that genuinely constrains a listing here. The same regulations define a dwelling unit as "limited to use by one family only," and they define a family as people related by blood, marriage or adoption, or else "a group of not more than 4 persons who need not be related who are living together in a single dwelling unit and maintaining a household."

So a four-bedroom house advertised as sleeping ten unrelated adults is arguing with the code, permit or no permit. Nobody at Town Hall publishes enforcement numbers on this, and I found no case of it being used against a rental, yet it's the lever that exists, and it costs nothing to ask about before you buy a bed for a tenth guest.

One more boundary is worth knowing, because crossing it changes your legal category entirely. Serve breakfast and you become a bed and breakfast facility, which is a very different proposition. Section 5.3.5 requires all of the following:

• A Special Use Permit with a site plan.
• Written certification from the Town Sanitarian that water supply and sewage disposal can support the use.
• Sign-off from the Fire Marshal and the Building Inspector.
• Two off-street parking spaces for you, plus one more for every guest room.
• Five guest rooms at most, each at least 120 square feet.
• The house has to be your principal residence, and it has to have been built before 1940.
• Renewal by the Commission every three years, with no guest staying more than two consecutive weeks.

Stonington's fee ordinance starts Special Use Permits at $500 plus $100 per 1,000 square feet of floor area, so this is not a small pivot. Keep the coffee in the kitchen, though, and none of it applies to you.

The broader planning mood is worth reading too, since it's what any future ordinance would grow out of. Stonington's 2026 Plan of Conservation and Development went to a public hearing on August 18, 2026, and its executive summary draft is worth ten minutes of anyone's time. It singles out "Wequetequock's scenic, rural character" against "Mystic's role as a regional tourism hub," and it also records what residents told the planners, which is that "there is concern that tourism-driven growth is leading to over development," alongside a need for housing local workers can afford in a town where only 6% of units count as affordable.

That mix of pride and worry is what any future short-term rental ordinance would be written on top of, so it's the passage I'd re-read every couple of years. For a sense of how differently a neighboring Connecticut shoreline town can handle the same question, our Branford regulation guide makes a useful comparison.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Wequetequock

So the town does hold real levers, which makes the missing license more interesting than a simple oversight would be. There isn't one, and by that I mean Stonington has no short-term rental permit, no registration, no annual renewal, no application fee and no registration number you have to print in your listing.

You don't have to take my word for it either, since the town's index of Special Acts and Local Ordinances runs alphabetically from Acme Wire to Zoning Violation Citations, roughly 120 entries covering everything from panhandling to plastic straws to junk dealers, and there's no short-term rental entry anywhere in it. The Zoning Regulations don't contain the phrase either, which matters more than it sounds, because the March 2026 edition came out of a multi-year rewrite. The commission had the whole code open on the table and chose to leave short-term rentals out of it.

Leaving them out wasn't an accident of drafting, mind you, because the town had already had that fight and lost it. Stonington spent roughly three years developing an ordinance that would've required owners to register annually, name a contact who could answer a complaint within 60 minutes, swear that smoke and carbon monoxide detectors were working, and print a registration number in every advertisement, with a $250 fine and a one-year loss of permit for repeat offenders.

Then the voters killed it. The Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments recorded the outcome plainly in its October 2023 survey of short-term rental regulation, which says that "voters in the Town of Stonington defeated a proposed ordinance regulating short-term rentals in March 2023" and marks the town in its table as allowing but not regulating them. Local reporting at the time put the referendum result at 694 to 342.

Now, this is where you have to be careful, because the most authoritative-looking source on the internet gets this wrong. Connecticut's own Office of Legislative Research published 2024-R-0044, "Municipal Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in Connecticut" in February 2024. That report lists Stonington among twelve towns regulating short-term rentals, and calls it "the only town we identified that requires property owners to annually register with the town through a platform," then goes on to describe the registration fields, the permit, the registration number and the $250 penalty in detail.

Every one of those details comes from the ordinance the voters had rejected eleven months earlier. That report is where most of the secondary guidance about this town traces back to, so if you've read anywhere that Stonington requires an annual short-term rental permit, that's almost certainly the chain, and it doesn't.

The town could change its mind at any time, and since October 1, 2024 it has had explicit authority to. Connecticut General Statutes § 7-148qq lets any municipality, by vote of its legislative body, "adopt an ordinance requiring the licensure of short-term rental properties in such municipality and regulating the operation and use of such properties," and even engage consultants to help draft it. Nearly two years on, Stonington hasn't used it. Still, that's a vote of the Board of Selectmen and a town meeting away rather than a change in state law, so do check the ordinance index once a year rather than assuming today's answer is permanent.

Required Documents for Wequetequock Short-Term Rentals

Since there's nothing to file at the planning counter, the paperwork that still follows you goes to the state and to the assessor instead. It's a short list, and none of it is difficult, though two items carry real penalties for missing them.

• A Connecticut room occupancy tax registration, if any booking reaches you outside a platform that collects on your behalf. The Department of Revenue Services charges $100 to register, waived if you already hold a sales and use tax permit, and you then file Form OP-210 electronically through myconneCT by the last day of the month after each period.
• A personal property declaration with the Stonington Assessment Department, filed by November 1 each year for property held on the October 1 assessment date. The department's own personal property brochure says flatly that "property owners who lease, loan, or rent property must also file," and that there's a 25% assessment penalty for failing to. That one catches people out.
• A trade name certificate at the Town Clerk, if you're operating under a business name rather than your own. Stonington charges $20 to file, amend or cancel one, and it goes in the town where the business operates.
• Ledge Light Health District approval, where your lot runs on a well or an onsite septic system. The district reviews additions, accessory structures, lot line revisions and, importantly for this, changes in use from seasonal to year round or the addition of a bedroom. Turning a summer cottage into a year-round listing is exactly that kind of change.
• A building permit, if you're altering anything. Stonington has taken permits online only since May 3, 2021, and inspections won't be scheduled until the fees are paid in full.

Notice what isn't on that list. No proof of insurance goes to the town, no local contact form, no neighbor notification, no annual inspection and no occupancy affidavit. Your insurer will almost certainly want to know the house is being let nightly, since a standard homeowner's policy generally isn't written for that, but do keep in mind that's a conversation with a carrier rather than a filing with Stonington.

Wequetequock Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through that and are able to take a first booking, there's still tax to deal with, and it stacks in an unusual way here. Connecticut runs a single statewide lodging tax at a high rate, the town adds nothing on top of it, and then two property levies land on the same address, one of which is specific to Wequetequock.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Connecticut room occupancy tax, short-term home rental	15% of rent	Airbnb, or you through DRS
Connecticut room occupancy tax, bed and breakfast establishment	11% of rent	the operator, through DRS
Town of Stonington property tax, fiscal 2026	18.18 mills	Town of Stonington
Wequetequock Fire District levy, fiscal 2026	0.97 mills	Town of Stonington
Local lodging or hotel tax	none	not authorized in Connecticut

The lodging piece is the big one, and it comes straight from statute. Connecticut General Statutes § 12-408(1)(B) charges 15% on rent from a lodging house, which is the category a furnished residence let short-term falls into, and 11% on a bed and breakfast establishment. The Department of Revenue Services then confirms on its room occupancy tax page that the tax applies to stays of "30 consecutive calendar days or less" and stops on the 31st consecutive day, so a month-long booking is taxed for its first 30 nights and then falls out of the tax entirely. That's one reason the mid-term market looks so different on a spreadsheet.

Whether you ever touch that 15% yourself depends on where the booking comes from, though. Section 12-408h makes a "short-term rental facilitator" the retailer of record for every booking on its platform, and subsection (c) then relieves the operator of liability "to the extent the short-term rental facilitator collected the tax due on such rent." Which platforms count, then? In the statute's own terms, a facilitator is one that handled at least $250,000 of Connecticut rentals in the prior twelve months, collects the rent, and gets paid for doing it.

So Airbnb sits squarely inside that definition, and its own help page says it collects the Connecticut State Room Occupancy Tax at 15%, or 11% for bed and breakfast establishments, on the listing price including the cleaning fee for the first 30 nights.

Vrbo I couldn't verify, because its jurisdiction list returned a server error every time I tried it in July 2026, so ask Vrbo directly rather than assuming. And watch out for the other half of that rule: the moment you take a direct booking, a referral or a corporate stay outside a collecting platform, the tax is yours to register for, collect and remit.

Property tax is the quieter cost, and this is where Wequetequock stops being an abstraction. Connecticut's Office of Policy and Management publishes every municipality's rate, and for fiscal year 2026, on the 2024 grand list, Stonington's town rate is 18.18 mills while the Wequetequock Fire District adds 0.97. That puts a Wequetequock address at 19.15 mills all in, against 19.88 for an otherwise identical house a mile away in the Pawcatuck Fire District and 19.98 over in Mystic. It's a modest difference and it's a real one, so make sure the fire district shows up in your carrying-cost model rather than getting rounded away.

Possible Write-Offs or Deductions

The deductions themselves are the ordinary ones, and your accountant will handle them better than any guide can: mortgage interest, insurance, utilities, cleaning, supplies, repairs, platform fees, and depreciation on the building and its contents. What's worth flagging instead is the Connecticut wrinkle sitting underneath them, since it can cut either way.

Stonington's personal property brochure says taxable personal property includes "furniture, fixtures... and any other equipment used in a business or to earn income," while "residential furnishings" are not taxable. A furnished house rented by the night sits precisely on that seam, and the brochure doesn't resolve it. Get it wrong in one direction and you've under-declared, which brings that 25% penalty, while getting it wrong in the other has you paying 19.15 mills a year on beds and sofas you never needed to declare in the first place.

So don't guess at this one. Call the Assessment Department on 860-535-5098 before your first November 1 and get the answer in writing, and remember that whatever they tell you also decides whether that furniture is depreciating against a tax you're genuinely paying.

Connecticut Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

That 15% is the one part of this a town can't change, which is a useful way into the state layer, because Connecticut's approach is unusual in both directions.

There's no state preemption, to start with, since Connecticut has no statute limiting what a municipality may do about short-term rentals. In 2024 the legislature moved the opposite way, in fact, by handing towns explicit authority they'd previously held only by implication, because Public Act 24-143, § 7, effective October 1, 2024, lets any municipality adopt a licensing ordinance by vote of its legislative body. So there's no ceiling on what Stonington could impose if it ever changed course, and there's no floor protecting you either.

There's also no statewide registry, and it's worth knowing how close Connecticut came to one. House Bill 5536 would've required operators advertising outside a collecting platform to register each property with the revenue department annually for $100, and it would've let municipalities layer on a supplemental tax of up to 2.75% of rent.

It cleared the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee 36 to 18 on March 30, 2026 and was tabled for the House calendar on April 16, yet it never got a floor vote before the session adjourned on May 6, 2026, so it didn't become law. Do watch for a successor in the 2027 session, because a state registry plus a municipal 2.75% option would change the arithmetic in Wequetequock more than anything the town has done in a decade.

What you're left with statewide, then, is the room occupancy tax, platform collection under § 12-408h, and whatever each town has decided for itself, which varies enormously from one town line to the next. The Connecticut statewide regulation guide maps that picture, the Norwich guide covers the largest city in New London County, and the New Haven County guide covers a stretch of shoreline where several towns have taken a firmer line than Stonington did.

Does Stonington Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Not against short-term rentals as such, because there are no short-term rental rules here to enforce. What the town enforces instead is everything that would apply to your house whether you let it or not, and the flyer says as much: violations "at a Short Term Rental property will be addressed the same as any other property within the Town."

In practice that makes enforcement complaint-driven, which means your real exposure is your guests' behavior rather than your paperwork. Three mechanisms do the work.

The first is the police. Stonington's nuisance ordinance, adopted in 1997, prohibits "unreasonably loud, disturbing, or unnecessary activity or noise" that is objectionable when heard inside a residential home, with quiet hours before 6 a.m. and after 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and before 8 a.m. and after 10 p.m. on Sunday. The Department of Police Services enforces it, the fine tops out at $100, and every day a violation continues counts as a separate offense. That's small money on its own, though a documented pattern of police calls is exactly the material a neighborhood group brings to a Board of Selectmen meeting when it wants an ordinance.

The second is zoning. The Zoning Enforcement Officer can inspect and can order a condition remedied in writing under Section 1.10.2, and the town's citation ordinance sets the fine at "$150 (one hundred and fifty dollars)" per citation. You get 30 days to pay, then 10 days to request a hearing once formal notice issues, or you're deemed to have admitted liability, and an unpaid assessment gets certified to Superior Court. That's the route an occupancy complaint about four unrelated persons would travel.

The third is the health district, and it's the one people underrate. If your lot is on septic and you've quietly turned a seasonal cottage into a year-round listing, or added a bedroom to sleep more guests, Ledge Light Health District reviews the flow, and it can make a problem structural rather than merely financial. Be aware that this is the quiet risk in an older coastal house, and it's far cheaper to ask before the work than to be found out after it.

None of that adds up to an aggressive regime. It adds up to a town that took a vote, decided not to build an enforcement apparatus, and left the ordinary machinery to handle whatever comes up. Run a house that generates complaints, though, and you'll meet all three mechanisms in the same season, and you'll be handing the next ordinance campaign its best exhibit while you're at it.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Wequetequock

Given how few gates there are, the order below matters less for compliance than for not wasting money, since the early steps are the ones that tell you whether the later ones are worth doing at all.

1. Confirm you're in the Town and not the Borough. The Borough is a separate municipality whose zoning names tourist homes and short-term rentals directly. Wequetequock sits well outside it, though if you're shopping across Stonington generally, check the address before you make an offer.
2. Read your own restrictions first. The town won't stop you, so the binding limits are likelier to be a deed covenant, a condominium or association rule, or a mortgage clause. These are the constraints nobody looks up until after closing.
3. Size the listing to the code, not to the bedroom count. A dwelling unit is limited to one family, and unrelated guests only count as a family up to four. Decide now whether your listing description is going to argue with that.
4. Check the septic and well situation. Call Ledge Light before you convert a seasonal property to year-round use or add a bedroom, because the approval is theirs and the retrofit would be yours.
5. Sort out insurance. No local rule requires it, and a standard homeowner's policy generally isn't written for nightly guests, so tell your carrier what you're planning before the first booking rather than after the first claim.
6. Decide how bookings will arrive. Platform-only bookings mean Airbnb handles the 15% room occupancy tax for you, while any direct booking means registering with the revenue department for $100 and filing Form OP-210 yourself. Choose that deliberately rather than drifting into it.
7. File the trade name if you're using one, at the Town Clerk, for $20.
8. Diarize November 1. The personal property declaration is due then, the penalty for missing it is a 25% assessment, and it's the single most likely thing on this list to be forgotten.
9. Watch the town, once a year. Section 7-148qq lets Stonington license short-term rentals whenever it votes to, and the 2026 Plan of Conservation and Development records real local anxiety about tourism-driven growth. Reading one selectmen's agenda a year is cheap insurance.

Who to Contact in Wequetequock about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Since there's no dedicated short-term rental office to call, your question routes instead to whichever department owns the underlying subject, and knowing which one that is will save you an afternoon. Almost everything sits at 152 Elm Street.

Zoning, land use and the short-term rental flyer

The Town of Stonington Department of Planning and Land Use answers anything about permitted uses, occupancy, bed and breakfast permits and enforcement.

• Address: 152 Elm Street, Stonington, CT 06378
• Phone: 860-535-5095, fax 860-535-1023
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• People: Paul Dickson, Director of Land Use, [email protected]; Candace Palmer, Zoning and Inland Wetland Enforcement Officer, [email protected]; Adrianna Bancroft-Jones, Planning and Zoning Specialist, [email protected]

Personal property and the November 1 declaration

The Assessment Department decides whether your furniture counts as taxable business property, and it's the office to call before you file rather than after.

• Address: 152 Elm Street, Stonington, CT 06378
• Phone: 860-535-5098, or [email protected]
• Director: Jennifer Lineaweaver
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The bills themselves belong to the Tax Collector, reachable on 860-535-5080 or [email protected], at the same address.

Septic, wells and any change in occupancy

Ledge Light Health District has served Stonington since May 1, 2017 and handles onsite septic, well approvals and lodging inspections.

• Address: 216 Broad Street, New London, CT 06320
• Phone: 860-448-4882
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Land use sanitarian: Katie Baldwin, 860-535-5010, [email protected], with Wendy Ireland on 860-910-0440 for the local desk

One note if you're comparing addresses, since I hit this myself: the town's own Sanitarian page prints Ledge Light's street address with a Stonington postcode, while the district's own contact page says New London. Use the district's version.

Building permits and inspections

The Building Official takes permits online only, and won't schedule an inspection until the fees are paid.

• Address: 152 Elm Street, 3rd Floor, Stonington, CT 06378
• Phone: 860-535-5075
• Official: Christopher Tehan
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

State lodging tax

The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services owns registration, Form OP-210 and the myconneCT filing portal.

• Address: 450 Columbus Boulevard, Suite 1, Hartford, CT 06103
• Phone: 860-297-5962 or 800-382-9463, TTY 860-297-4911
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

And if your question is whether the town is about to start regulating, that one belongs to the Selectmen's Office: First Selectman Bill Middleton, 860-535-5050, [email protected].

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Wequetequock on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those phone numbers cover the official answer, so the honest question left is what operators here actually say, and I'd rather be straight with you about how thin that evidence is. Reddit blocks the kind of automated access this research runs on, and its own policy rules out the commercial use we'd need, so I haven't read those threads and I won't characterize them. What follows is my read of the public discussion I could open, plus the town's own documented record, which in this case is the better evidence anyway.

The investor conversation about this shoreline turns out to be mostly about seasonality rather than compliance. A BiggerPockets thread comparing Mystic and Stonington against Westerly and Narragansett runs almost entirely on pricing and summer demand, and the sharpest regulatory point in it comes from a Rhode Island resident warning that some of the cheaper Narragansett properties are May-to-October camps you can't occupy the rest of the year. Nobody in that thread raises a Connecticut permit, which is roughly what you'd expect in a town that doesn't issue one.

Be careful with the second-hand version of this town's rules, though, because it's wrong in a specific and repeated way. A good deal of the advice floating around describes Stonington as having a short-term rental ordinance "on the books," complete with annual registration and a $250 fine. That description matches the ordinance the voters rejected in March 2023, and it survives because the state's own 2024 legislative research report printed it as current. Anyone repeating that chain is describing a document that never took effect.

Where you can read the local mood directly is in the town's own record, and it's more useful than any forum. A referendum defeat of 694 to 342 is a lopsided result, and the 2026 Plan of Conservation and Development captures the tension that produced it. Residents told planners that "there is concern that tourism-driven growth is leading to over development," and in the same breath that local workers, young families and seniors need housing they can afford, in a town where accommodation and food services are among the top industries.

Both things are true here at once. People make their living from visitors and worry about what visitors are doing to the place, and my read is that the 2023 vote settled the permit question without settling that argument at all.

So if you're weighing Wequetequock against other places in the state, the Connecticut market data is the quickest way to see where nightly rates and occupancy actually justify the furniture. And the broader lesson travels a long way past one village on Wequetequock Cove: an absence of rules is a decision somebody made at a particular moment, usually on a narrow turnout, and it lasts exactly as long as the people who made it stay content. Underwrite a property on what the rules could reasonably become, not on what the permit counter tells you this morning.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need a permit to run an Airbnb in Wequetequock, Connecticut in 2026?

No. Wequetequock is part of the Town of Stonington, and the town's Department of Planning and Land Use states on its own short-term rental flyer that Stonington "does not currently regulate short-term rentals." There is no registration, no annual license, no application fee and no registration number to display. Ordinary zoning, building, health and nuisance rules still apply exactly as they would to any other house in town.

What tax do you pay on a short-term rental in Stonington, Connecticut?

Connecticut charges a 15% room occupancy tax on rent from a short-term home rental, or 11% for a bed and breakfast establishment, and it applies to stays of 30 consecutive days or less. There is no town or county lodging tax. Airbnb collects and remits the 15% on bookings it handles, so a host booking only through Airbnb generally doesn't register separately. Any direct booking makes registration with the Department of Revenue Services your responsibility.

How many guests can a Wequetequock short-term rental legally sleep?

Stonington's zoning regulations limit a dwelling unit to use by one family, and define a family as people related by blood, marriage or adoption, or else "a group of not more than 4 persons who need not be related." Related guests, such as one household or an extended family, aren't capped at four by that definition. A listing marketed at large groups of unrelated adults is the one that runs into it, and the Planning Department is the office to ask before you advertise.

Did Stonington ever have a short-term rental ordinance?

It drafted one, and voters rejected it at referendum in March 2023 by 694 to 342. The proposal would've required annual registration, a contact reachable within 60 minutes, a sworn statement about smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and a registration number in every listing, with a $250 fine for violations. Connecticut's Office of Legislative Research described that ordinance as current in a February 2024 report, which is why outdated claims about it still circulate.

Does Connecticut have a statewide short-term rental registry?

Not as of July 2026. House Bill 5536 would've created one at the Department of Revenue Services, charging $100 per property each year and letting towns add a supplemental tax of up to 2.75% of rent. It passed committee 36 to 18 in March 2026, then died without a floor vote when the session adjourned on May 6, 2026. Individual municipalities have been able to license short-term rentals themselves since October 2024.

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