BRUSSELS—Short-term accommodation services company Airbnb is obliged to provide information in rental contracts to tax authorities, an adviser to Europe’s top court said on Thursday, in another potential legal setback in Europe for the company.
Airbnb has in recent years found itself at loggerheads with authorities in several European Union countries, arguing that taxation and other requirements contravene the EU principle of the freedom to provide services across the 27-country bloc.
The latest case involves a 2017 Italian law requiring Airbnb and other short-term rental sites to forward information from their rental contracts and withhold 21 percent from the rental income and pay it to tax authorities….