Finance

The Finance Department is responsible for providing support services for the Town including: accounting, financial reporting, accounts payable, payroll, treasury services, fiscal planning/budgeting, miscellaneous billing, and debt management.  It also supports efforts in tax auditing and purchasing.  

Finance Information 
In an effort to make many of the Town’s public documents as accessible as possible, the Town has established a virtual library to provide online public access to various documents pertaining to the Town’s financial information. These include budgets, ACFRs, monthly revenue, and expenditure documents.

Effective February 1, 2026 - Increased Hotel Sales Tax and Bed Tax

The Town of Cave Creek Town Council approved increases in the Hotel Sales Tax and Bed Tax to 5% each effective February 1, 2026. 

For tax purposes, a "hotel" is defined as any public or private hotel, inn, hostelry, tourist home, house, motel, rooming house, apartment house, trailer, or other lodging place offering lodging, wherein the owner thereof, for compensation, furnishes lodging to any transient, except foster homes, rest homes, sheltered care homes, nursing homes, or primary health care facilities. "Transient" is defined as any person who either at the person's own expense or at the expense of another obtains lodging space or the use of lodging space on a daily or weekly basis, or on any other basis for less than thirty (30) consecutive days.  "Lodging (lodging space)" is defined as any room or apartment in a hotel or any other provider of rooms, trailer spaces, or other residential dwelling spaces.

AzDOR Business Codes
Hotel Tax Business Code - 044
Bed Tax Business Code - 144
* As a reminder, the business is responsible for payment of taxes even if the tax was not collected from the customer.

The Town's Hotel and Bed tax rate structure is not affiliated with other county or state tax programs. For more information go to the Arizona Department of Revenue - Tax Rate Table.

2025 User Fees Effective February 1

The Town will perform reviews of the user fees periodically and adjust the fees as needed to account for annual inflationary factors.

Comprehensive User Fees (PDF)

Development Impact Fee Reports

2012 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)
2013 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)
2014 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)
2015 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)
2016 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)
2017 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)
2018 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)
2019 Development Impact Fee Report (PDF)


Government Property Lease Excise Tax Properties
The State has passed new legislation mandating the Town prepare and present on its website a report of every building lease to every private entity whether it has any such leases.   The Town has no leases of the kind covered by those requirements and therefore has no report or database of any such agreements.   There would be a database and or report attached here Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports Development Impact Fee Reports that would indicate each agreement and their calculated excise tax if any.