Free Florida sales tax tool
Florida county surtax calculator
Florida charges 6% state sales tax everywhere, then each county adds its own discretionary surtax on top. The surtax reaches only the first $5,000 of a single item, which is the part most calculators get wrong.
2026 Fla. Stat. 212.054 and 212.055
Pick the county where the sale is delivered or where the buyer takes possession.
Before tax. Enter the price of the sale.
What kind of sale is this?
A truck, a machine, a display case. The cap reaches this one.
The cap follows each item, so the whole invoice is surtaxed.
The cap never reaches these. Surtax applies to the full amount.
What you owe
- State sales tax6% on the full $40,000
- $2,400.00
- County surtax1% on the first $5,000 of that sale
- $50.00
- Total tax
- $2,450.00
- Total due
- $42,450.00
- Effective combined rate
- 6.125%
What the cap saved you
A generic combined-rate calculator would charge $2,800.00 on this sale. Florida does not work that way.
The cap keeps $35,000 out of the surtax base, which is $350.00 you should not be collecting.
The same sale in other counties
County is not a rounding error. This is the same amount, priced where WAYG's clients actually sell.
- Colliernone$2,400.00
- Orange0.5%$2,425.00
- Duval1.5%$2,475.00
Where these numbers come from
Authority
- County surtax: Fla. Stat. 212.054 and 212.055
- State sales tax: Fla. Stat. 212.05
- $5,000 single item cap: Fla. Stat. 212.054(2)(b)1.
Florida DOR Form DR-15DSS, calendar year 2026, republished each November. Florida DOR surtax page
Effective year
2026. The Department of Revenue republishes the county table every November, so a rate that is right today expires on schedule.
Rate table last confirmed: 2026-08-30
What this does not model
- Motor vehicles and boats, where the surtax follows the county the purchaser lives in, not the county of the sale.
- Use tax on purchases brought into Florida from out of state.
- The separate rates on commercial rent and on electricity.
- Exemptions and resale certificates. Groceries, most prescriptions and sales for resale are not taxed at all, and this tool assumes the sale is taxable.
- The six counties whose rate is not loaded. Those are named rather than guessed.
This is an estimate
It is arithmetic on the figures you entered, using published rates. It is not tax advice, and it is not a filing. Sales tax is filed on Form DR-15 and the surtax is reported by county.
Filing this every month?
If you collect in more than one county, the DR-15 gets fussy fast. We handle sales tax registration, monthly filing and the county breakdown as part of the subscription.
The $5,000 rule, in one worked example
Say you sell a work truck for $40,000 in Miami-Dade County. A calculator that adds 6% and 1% together and multiplies once will tell you to collect $2,800. That is off by $350, and it lands in your customer's pocket or yours depending on which way you round it.
What Florida actually says is that the county surtax applies to the first $5,000 of the sales amount of a single item of tangible personal property. State tax applies to the whole thing. So the truck is 6% on $40,000, which is $2,400, plus 1% on $5,000, which is $50. Total $2,450.
Where the cap does not reach
The cap follows the item, not the invoice. Two separate $4,000 machines on one invoice are two items, and both are surtaxed in full. And the cap does not apply at all to admissions, transient rentals, prepaid calling arrangements, or services. Those pay surtax on the full amount no matter how large the sale is.
The motor vehicle trap
Vehicles and boats follow a different rule that this tool deliberately does not model: the surtax is the rate of the county where the purchaser lives, not the county where the dealer sits. A Broward dealer selling to a Collier County resident collects no surtax at all. If you sell titled property, that is a conversation to have with an accountant rather than a calculator.
Reporting it
Surtax is collected with the state tax and reported on Form DR-15, broken out by county on the back of the return. Sellers who deliver into more than one county have to track it county by county, which is where most of the errors we clean up actually come from.
What WAYG does with this
Sales tax registration, monthly filing and the county breakdown are part of the monthly subscription. If you have already collected the wrong amount, that is fixable, and it is easier to fix in the current year than in an audit.