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Morgan County, CO vacation rental rules and taxes

Morgan County’s small rental market centers on Fort Morgan (about 19 Airbnb listings). We found no county or city short-term rental license, but the county charges a 1.9% county-wide lodging tax on top of state and city sales tax.

Checked against official sources November 8, 2026
Market
About 19 listings in Fort Morgan
County rental rules
None found
One search found no county or Fort Morgan STR rules.
County lodging tax
1.9%, county-wide
State-collected; platforms collect it.Source
Fort Morgan total
About 9.8%
2.9% state, 5% city, 1.9% lodging.Source

What we checked (November 2026): One web search for Morgan County and Fort Morgan short-term rental rules and lodging tax; a Fort Morgan document it found was an image-only PDF we couldn’t read. We read the county tourism panel page, the state rate table, and the state’s county lodging tax report. We did not read the county zoning resolution or Fort Morgan’s code.

What to do

  1. Ask before you list

    We found no short-term rental license here, but zoning may still treat renting by the night as a lodging or commercial use. Ask the Morgan County Planning and Zoning office or your town hall whether your address needs a permit, and check your HOA or deed covenants.

  2. Taxes on each stay

    Stays under 30 days owe 2.9% state sales tax and the 1.9% Morgan County lodging tax, plus 5% in Fort Morgan or 4% in Brush (there’s no county sales tax). Airbnb and other platforms collect the state and state-administered taxes on their bookings; for direct bookings, file with the Colorado Department of Revenue. County lodging tax is state-administered, so platforms collect it; file form DR 1485 quarterly for direct bookings. Fort Morgan and Brush taxes are state-collected too.Source

  3. Inside a town

    Towns make their own rules inside their limits; the county’s zoning applies only outside them. Call the town hall if your rental is in town.

Sources

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