Florida doesn't have one sales tax rate. It has sixty-seven of them — the 6% state rate plus whatever discretionary surtax the county of delivery has adopted, which for 2026 runs from 0% in Citrus and Collier counties up to 2% elsewhere, and can change on any January 1st when a county's authorizing referendum is renewed, expires, or is replaced. A single statewide number, the kind most other states can publish, doesn't exist for Florida. That's the specific problem this site is built to solve: it takes the DR-15DSS surtax schedule the Department republishes every year and puts the current figure for a given county on one page, next to the filing deadline, the penalty math and the registration steps, each with the government document it came from linked directly below it.
Why a dedicated page for this, specifically
A search for "Florida sales tax rate" turns up a lot of pages that quote last year's surtax table, or a state that isn't Florida, or the commercial-rent tax that Florida repealed for occupancy after October 2025 and that still gets cited as current. None of that is malicious — rates move every year and nobody goes back to fix a page once it's published. This site exists to be the page that does go back: every figure here carries the date it was last checked against the Department's own publication, visible near the title and again in the footer, and nothing is left standing past that date without being re-verified.
What this site is, in practice
One person researches and maintains it, cross-checking Florida Department of Revenue publications, Chapter 212 and 213 of the Florida Statutes, and the Florida Administrative Code against what's already written here, and updating a page when a figure moves. It is not the Department of Revenue, not a government office of any kind, and not a law or accounting firm — the disclaimer spells out exactly what that means and doesn't mean. Hosting and the time that goes into tracking rate changes are paid for by Google AdSense; nothing on the site is a paid placement or sponsored link.
Where the Department's own material doesn't actually answer a question — there's no published state-level fee for the Certificate of Registration, for instance, which the registration page says plainly rather than inventing a number — this site says so instead of guessing. A static page can't watch the Department's systems in real time, so the honest claim it makes is narrower than "always current": it's "current as of the date shown," with the primary source linked so you can check whether anything's moved since.
Reporting something wrong
A county's surtax rate changing, a due date landing differently than shown, a Department link that's moved — any of that is worth a message through Contact. Because Florida's surtax is set county by county and can shift on any January 1st, this is the page on this site most likely to drift out of date between reviews, and a reader catching that before the next scheduled check is genuinely useful. Every report gets checked against the Department's current publication before anything changes.