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Three separate taxes land on one night of Florida lodging, and they do not all go to the same agency. This works out the total on a stay and then splits it by who receives each part.
2026 · DR-15TDT R. 03/25 · Fla. Stat. 125.0104
Where the property is. This decides both the rate and who you file with.
The Department of Revenue prints a different rate for different parts of this county, so this one has to be answered before anything is calculated.
Cleaning, resort or pet fees, if they form part of the rental charge. Rule 12A-1.061, F.A.C. decides that, not this tool, so it starts at $0 and taxes only what you put in.
What the guest pays
- Florida state sales tax6% on the rental charge of $1,400
- $84.00
- County discretionary surtax1%
- $14.00
- Local option transient rental tax6% · The rest of Miami-Dade County
- $84.00
- Total tax
- $182.00
- Guest pays
- $1,582.00
- Effective combined rate
- 13%
Who receives each part
This is the part that costs people money. The state tax and the county surtax always go to the Department of Revenue. The local option tax may not.
Two separate returns, to two separate agencies, on the same night's rent. Filing the local tax on the DR-15 sends it to the wrong place and leaves the county's return unfiled.
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Florida Department of Revenue, on Form DR-15, Line D$98.00
- Florida state sales tax on the rental charge6% · Fla. Stat. 212.03; Rule 12A-1.061, F.A.C.
- $84.00
- County discretionary sales surtax1% · Fla. Stat. 212.054 and 212.055
- $14.00
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Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, Business Section$84.00
- Convention Development Tax3% · Fla. Stat. 212.0305
- $42.00
- Tourist Development Tax2% · Fla. Stat. 125.0104
- $28.00
- Professional Sports Facilities Franchise Tax1% · Fla. Stat. 125.0104
- $14.00
Where these numbers come from
Authority
- Florida state sales tax: Fla. Stat. 212.03; Rule 12A-1.061, F.A.C.
- County discretionary surtax: Fla. Stat. 212.054 and 212.055
- Local option transient rental tax: Fla. Stat. 125.0104 (tourist development tax); Fla. Stat. 125.0108 (tourist impact tax); Fla. Stat. 212.0305 (convention development tax); Ch. 67-930, Laws of Florida, as amended by Chs. 82-142, 83-363, 93-286 and 94-344 (municipal resort tax)
Rate table
Florida DOR Form DR-15TDT R. 03/25, Local Option Transient Rental Tax Rates.
Effective: 2026 · Last confirmed: 2026-08-30
The Department of Revenue's own warning about this table
If the local option transient rental tax is collected by the county, contact that county to verify the tax rate. Not all counties notify the Department of changes in their local option transient rental tax rate.
What the form says about this county
Miami-Dade: 4% for Surfside and Bal Harbour, 7% for Miami Beach, and 6% for the rest of the county.
What this does not model
- Whether a particular cleaning, resort or pet fee forms part of the rental charge. Rule 12A-1.061, F.A.C. governs that, and the answer turns on the terms of the booking.
- The exemptions for a bona fide written lease longer than six months, for a full time postsecondary student with a written statement from the institution, and for active duty military under official orders.
- The 2.5% collection allowance on the first $1,200 of tax due, capped at $30, which the Department allows on a timely electronic filing and payment.
- Miami-Dade's separate 2% food and beverage tax and 1% homeless and domestic violence tax, which reach restaurant sales rather than room nights.
- Local registration, licensing and short term rental ordinances. Those are not taxes and several Florida cities enforce them hard.
- Any rate a self administering county changed without telling the Department, which the Department says happens.
This is an estimate
It is arithmetic on the figures you entered, using published rates. It is not tax advice, it is not a filing, and it is not a promise of a result.
Filing in two places every month?
Short term rental clients file a DR-15 with the state and a separate return with the county, on the same rent, every month. We register the property, file both, and reconcile them to the platform payouts.
The part that costs people money
Florida charges 6% state sales tax on any accommodation rented for six months or less, plus the county discretionary surtax, plus a local option transient rental tax that runs from nothing to 7% depending on the county. That much most calculators get right.
What they miss is the remittance fork. Most Florida counties self administer the transient rental tax, which means the state tax and the surtax go to the Department of Revenue on Form DR-15 while the local tax goes directly to the county on its own return. A handful of counties have the Department collect everything, and those file once. Putting the county's money on the DR-15 sends it to the wrong agency and leaves the county's return unfiled, which is a penalty on a tax you already collected and already paid.
Miami Beach against Coral Gables, same county
A $1,400 stay, 4 nights at $350, in Coral Gables collects $182 of tax and files in 2 places. The identical stay in Miami Beach collects $196 and files in 3.
Form DR-15TDT footnote 2 is why: Miami Beach carries 7% where the rest of Miami-Dade carries 6%, because Miami Beach levies a 4% municipal resort tax of its own and that 4% is filed with the City of Miami Beach rather than with the county. Same county line, same surtax, different rate and a third return.
Where we refuse to answer
The Department prints footnotes rather than a single rate for Bay, Nassau, Okaloosa and Walton, because the tax there follows ZIP codes or districts instead of the county boundary. For the parts of those counties where the form does not state a rate, this tool says so and links to the form. It does not pick a number. A calculator that invents a tax rate is worse than one that admits what it does not know.
The Department's own warning
Form DR-15TDT carries a line worth repeating: not all counties tell the Department when they change their local option rate. Every rate here is transcribed from the form the Department publishes, and for a self administering county the county itself is the last word. Confirm before you file.
What WAYG does with this
Short term rental clients file a DR-15 with the state and a separate return with the county, on the same rent, every month, and reconcile both to what the booking platform actually remitted on their behalf. Registration, both filings and the reconciliation are part of the monthly subscription.