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What public rules cover short-term rentals in Barrie?

Municipal Accommodation Tax By-law 2019-022 for internet-based accommodation sharing platforms, the City's Municipal Accommodation Tax page, and Council motion 24-G-033 on short-term rentals.

Sources checked October 28, 2026

Barrie

The rule in Barrie

  • No short-term rental licence on the town's pages

Barrie: a 6% Municipal Accommodation Tax applies to stays under 30 nights (By-law 2019-022); the City's pages set out no short-term rental licence.

From Barrie, checked 28 Oct 2026

  1. The recordShort-term rentals
  2. Where to read itMunicipal Accommodation Tax; By-law 2019-022 and 1 more
  3. The free check reads itPick “Rental and short-term rental rules”

What the record shows

By-law 2019-022 sets an accommodation tax of six percent of the purchase price of accommodation provided for a continuous period of less than 30 nights through an internet-based accommodation sharing platform. The City's page says the 6% rate applies as of 1 April 2024 and that every operator of a property that collects the tax must register with Tourism Barrie; that registration is for the tax, and neither the by-law nor the page sets out a licence for short-term rental operators.

On 6 March 2024 Council adopted motion 24-G-033, directing staff to investigate options to further regulate and enforce short-term rentals and to report back to the Community Safety Committee. The motion's page lists no by-law that followed. Whether a particular home is used this way, and whether a condominium's own rules allow it, are separate questions.

Where to read it yourself

What OfferDue covers in Barrie

Rental and short-term rental rules is in the free check as a summary of the City's by-law, from our hand-kept table, linked to the City's page. The full report adds the home-business rule. Neither says how a given home is used.

Free check: pick “Rental and short-term rental rules” See the sample report

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