Originally published in Bloomberg Tax
Author: French Brown, Partner, Jones Walker LLP
July 2, 2025
Jones Walker’s French Brown says a permanent sales tax holiday and repeals of an aviation fuel tax and commercial lease sales tax will help ease compliance, provide businesses with cost savings, and give consumers predictability.
Florida’s tax relief package, part
On Monday, June 16th, the Florida Legislature is scheduled to vote on the final budget and annual tax proposal, bringing an end to the extended 2025 Regular Session. An amendment to House Bill 7031 has been filed containing the details of the tax relief plan.
The cornerstone of this legislation is the complete elimination of
Today, the President of the Florida Senate announced that tax relief has stalled the budget negotiations for the 2025 Regular Session. This means the Florida legislature will likely have to return in a Special Session to resolve tax and budget bills before the start of the state fiscal year on July 1, 2025.
The Senate
The Florida Department of Revenue announced today that the temporary sales tax reduction in Hillsborough County, Florida will expire on May 31, 2025.
As outlined in our initial article, the 2024 legislature temporarily suspended the Hillsborough County surtaxes in order to return a portion of previously enacted and later ruled unconstitutional transportation surtax. That
Effective January 1, 2025, Hillsborough County businesses face critical sales tax adjustments following a Florida Supreme Court ruling and legislation passed during the 2024 Regular Session.
This issue arose in November 2018, when Hillsborough County voters approved a 1% transportation surtax. In 2021, the Florida Supreme Court invalidated the surtax due to constitutional issues. During
Customer Stephanie Martin’s suit alleges Uber charged taxes on optional delivery charges to her and other Florida customers, and that the practice is netting the company “thousands of dollars in sales taxes on separately stated and avoidable delivery fees.” Martin v. Uber Technologies, Inc., S.D. Fla., No. 1:24-cv-22843 (July 25, 2024).
However, Florida law
Recently, the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) published a Notice of Proposed Rule for rule 12D-51.001, Florida Administrative Code, titled Florida Agricultural Classified Use Real Property Appraisal Guidelines. DOR seeks to amend the guidelines, originally promulgated in 1982, to provide guidance to county property appraisers as they develop valuations for real property classified as agricultural.
On June 1, 2024, Florida’s business rent tax will be automatically slashed from a 4.5% rate to a 2.0% rate due to implementation of its 2021 Wayfair legislation. Florida’s passage of Chapter 2021-2, Laws of Florida adopted economic nexus concepts related to the retail sale of tangible personal property by remote sellers and marketplaces. Part of the