Senator Don Gaetz is currently sponsoring a bill in legislation that allows a tax break for online reservation companies that will affect the amount of taxes received by local Tourist Development Councils. The taxes make up the TDCs’ budgets.
A bill analysis, available online through the Florida Senate website, said the bill requires that the “taxes are imposed on the amount received by the [property] owner…not the payments received by unrelated persons facilitating the booking reservations….”
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