Free Florida local business tax tool
Florida business tax receipt calculator
A business inside a Florida city owes two of these, one to the city and one to the county, priced by two different ordinances. This works out both, shows them separately, and refuses to guess where a published schedule cannot be read.
2026 tax year · Fla. Stat. 205.042, municipal business tax, and each city's adopting ordinance
The address decides this, not where you live or where the work happens.
What kind of business
A CPA, attorney, architect or engineer practice.
Administrative, consulting, agency, anything that sells a service rather than stock.
You carry inventory and sell to consumers.
Priced by seats almost everywhere in Florida.
Construction, alteration, repair or demolition.
What you owe for the year
A business inside city limits is reached by both levies. They are separate applications, separate payments and separate renewals.
Ordinance line: Accountants, Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), Auditors, or Related Services
The "Attorneys/Lawyers" line carries the same $239.15, as do Physician and Surgeon, Architectural Services and Acupuncturist.
Ordinance line: Professionals
The calendar and the penalty ladder
Receipts go on sale July 1, are due on or before September 30, and expire September 30 of the following year. Miss the date and the statute adds 10% for October, then 5% for each month after that, stopping at 25%.
Operating without a receipt at all is a separate 25% on top of the tax due. Leave it more than 150 days after notice and the statute opens the door to a civil action, court costs, attorney fees, collection costs and a further penalty of up to $250.
If you pay late
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By the end of October$27.9210%
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By the end of November$41.8715%
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By the end of December$55.8320%
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By the end of January$69.7925%
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February and after$69.7925%
Where these numbers come from
Authority
- Fla. Stat. 205.032, county business tax · Fla. Stat. 205.042, municipal business tax
- Fla. Stat. 205.053, due date and penalty ladder
- Coral Gables City Code Sec. 66-43, Local Business Tax
- Code of Miami-Dade County, Sec. 8A-223.1 (Ord. No. 06-191, 12-19-06)
Coral Gables
Effective: Fee schedule published March 10, 2026. Republished: The City reissues the consolidated fee schedule during the year, so check the current issue before you file.
Last confirmed: 2026-08-30 · City of Coral Gables Fee Schedule published March 10, 2026
Miami-Dade County
Effective: 2026 tax year. Republished: Only when the Board of County Commissioners amends Sec. 8A-223.1.
Last confirmed: 2026-08-30 · Code of Miami-Dade County, Chapter 8A, Article IX, Schedule of taxes
Sec. 8A-223.1 opens by saying the maximum number of employees during any period of the taxing year sets the tax, so a seasonal peak counts.
What this does not model
- The certificate of use, zoning approval, fire inspection and state licence that many cities require before they will issue the receipt at all. Those are separate charges.
- Any special classification your business might fall into. These schedules run to hundreds of lines and this tool prices five of them.
- Half year receipts, proration for a business that opens after April 1, and the transfer fee when a business moves or changes hands.
- The statutory exemptions for certain disabled persons, the aged, widows with minor dependants, disabled veterans and their unremarried spouses.
- Every Coral Gables business tax line carries the same footnote: "The applicable fees required by Ordinance 2006-27 are required for all local business taxes." Those additional fees are real and are not computed here.
- The Certificate of Use, which Coral Gables requires alongside the business tax receipt.
- The Miami-Dade County Beacon Council tax. Sec. 8A-223.1 says in its own opening line that the schedule does not include it.
This is an estimate
It is arithmetic on the figures you entered, using published ordinance rates. It is not tax advice, it is not a filing, and the city or county tax collector sets the final amount.
Running this in more than one city?
Two locations in two municipalities is four receipts, four renewal dates and four penalty clocks. We track the calendar and file them as part of the subscription.
Two receipts, and the second one surprises people
Fla. Stat. 205.032 lets a county levy a business tax across its whole jurisdiction. Fla. Stat. 205.042 lets an incorporated municipality levy its own inside city limits. Neither cancels the other. So a Coral Gables office pays Coral Gables $239.15 and pays Miami-Dade County $40 for the same year, and people who only budgeted for the city one find out in October.
Why the city number moves and the county number does not
County surtax on a sale is a county-level fact, so every city in Miami-Dade gets the same answer. The business tax receipt is not like that. Each municipality writes its own schedule by ordinance, so the same two practitioner office pays $239.15 in Coral Gables, $116 in the City of Miami, $345 in Miami Beach, $100 in Doral and $150 in Hialeah. That is a spread of $245 between $100 and $345 inside one county.
They do not even count the same things
Miami-Dade County prices a retail store by employees. Coral Gables prices the same store by the cost of stock on the shelf. Fort Lauderdale taxes each CPA in the office individually while the City of Miami charges one flat amount for the office. Hialeah abandoned trade names entirely and prices everything by NAICS code. There is no shortcut that gets all of those right, which is why this tool holds a separate schedule per city instead of a rate per county.
Where this tool says it does not know
No dataset of Florida municipal business tax schedules exists, so every schedule here was read one ordinance at a time. Nine cities and seven counties were verified. Everywhere else the tool names the city, links its own authority and prints no number. It also refuses inside verified cities where the published schedule contradicts itself: Miami Beach's FY 2026 fee schedule prints two different amounts for the same general office category in the same document, and we are not going to pick one on your behalf.
The date, which is the expensive part
Receipts go on sale July 1, are due on or before September 30, and expire September 30 of the following year. Fla. Stat. 205.053 then adds 10% for October and 5% for each month after, capped at 25%. Operating with no receipt at all is a further 25% of the tax due, and after 150 days from notice the statute opens the door to court costs, attorney fees and up to $250 more.
What WAYG does with this
We track the renewal calendar for every location a client operates and file the receipts, city and county, as part of the monthly subscription. Two offices in two municipalities is four receipts and four penalty clocks, and it is the kind of thing that quietly lapses.