Drew DixonDecember 11, 2024
Spending by visitors to the Sunshine State accounts for nearly 10% of all jobs in Florida.
Tag: Tax revenue
Drew DixonDecember 11, 2024
Guest AuthorOctober 28, 2024
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Those elected in November will face pressure to do more.
Wire ServicesMarch 6, 2021
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Florida's unemployment rate for December was also revised down to 5.1%.
Scott PowersJuly 31, 2020
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Florida is also losing $55 million per week in travel tax revenue.
Associated PressJune 1, 2020
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In Florida and some other states, Legislature is not in session.
Bobby Caina CalvanApril 30, 2020
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Disappearing tax revenue is turning into city employee furloughs and city service cuts.
Drew WilsonJuly 15, 2019
3min581
In 2018 alone, Airbnb's agreements produced tens of millions of dollars in tax revenues for Florida's local governments.
Drew WilsonAugust 7, 2018
5min549
With Floridians purchasing fewer packs of cigarettes and a top cigarette company fighting to avoid settlement payments, state economists are forecasting a dip in tobacco tax collections and settlement revenues going forward. During a Tuesday meeting of the Revenue Estimating Conference, state economists said many smokers are smoking less and some are switching to “e-cigarettes” […]
Drew WilsonJune 8, 2018
3min217
Vacation rental platform Airbnb announced Friday that it has collected and remitted more than $12 million in tax revenue to Miami-Dade and Broward counties over the past year. Those collections are from separate agreements agreed to by each county’s commission that saw Airbnb start automatically collecting 6 percent bed taxes and remitting the revenue directly […]
Scott PowersJune 27, 2017
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Vacation home-rental marketing giant Airbnb said Tuesday its expanding list of tax agreements and its growing business should lead it to equal last year’s total sales and tourist tax payments just in the first six months of 2017. The company announced that its five-month totals in sales and tourist taxes paid to the state and […]