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Florida law grants governmental entities, including states, counties, municipalities, and political subdivisions (e.g., school districts or municipal libraries), an exemption from Florida sales and use tax.

Lawful deductions include tax refunded by you to your customers for returned goods or allowances for damaged merchandise, tax paid by you on purchases of goods intended for use or consumption but sold by you instead, Hope Scholarship Credits, and any other deductions allowed by law.

Effective July 1, 2021, Florida considers vendors who make $100,000 in revenue from buyers in the state in the previous calendar year (excluding marketplace sales for individual sellers) to have economic nexus. As a result, vendors are obligated to collect sales tax from buyers in the state.

Tax Rates. The discretionary sales surtax rate depends on the county, where rates currently range from . 5% to 1.5%; however, there are some counties that do not impose surtax.

Registered sales tax dealers, including out-of-state dealers, who sell and deliver taxable goods or services within a county with a discretionary sales surtax, must collect the tax from their customers and pay the surtax to the Department.

How do I use the Florida sales tax calculator? Florida state tax rate is 6%: $100 × 0.06 = $6.00. Palm Beach County tax rate is 1%: $100 × 0.01 = $1.00. Total sales tax rate for Palm Beach County, Florida, is 7%: $100 × 0.07 = $7.00.

Florida uses a bracket system for collecting sales tax on any taxable sale that is less than a whole dollar amount. In calculating the sales tax, multiply the whole dollar amount by the tax rate (6% plus the county surtax rate) and use the bracket system to figure the tax on the amount less than a dollar.

The collection allowance is 2.5% (.025) of the first $1,200 of tax due, not to exceed $30 for each reporting location. If you have less than $1,200 in tax due, your collection allowance will be less than $30.

Discretionary sales surtax, also called a county tax, is imposed by most Florida counties and applies to most transactions subject to sales tax. The University of Florida and its departments must collect the surtax in addition to Florida's general sales tax of 6.0%.