Guatemala Real Estate Lake Atitlan

 Guatemala Airbnb versus SAT New breaking news....!!! SAT (the Superintendencia de Administracion Tributaria = Guatemalan IRS) is going after the revenues from Airbnb rentals that have not been reported adequately. How it all started...  The new technology and the digitization of the world economy makes compilation of data more efficient and  easier to mine. And the tax administration (aka SAT) is implementing new process to be able to pull out information that allow them to identify revenues that have not been declared and have paid the due taxes associated with.     They detected :   2,659 users 7.242 properties rented 254,453 services delivered (nights basically) 109,000,000 US $ paid to the users   Of the 2,659 users : 2,393 are indivuals 266 are legal entities (most common Sociedad Anonima)   The location are mostly the tourist destination but 75% from Guatemala - Antigua then  Pacific coast and the high land (Lake Atitlan, Quetzaltennago)   2/3 of them are registered as pequeño c