Sales Tax – Florida – Audit, Help, Problems
 
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Florida Business Owners Must Know How to Comply with Florida Tax Laws
 
What is Required by The State of Florida
 
Insider Tips – Helpful facts you need to Know:
1. File sales and use tax electronically, dealers may deduct a collection allowance only when they timely file and pay sales tax and use tax electronically.
If you owe electronically file (E – file) your return and electronically pay (E pay) tax timely, you are entitled to receive a collection allowance.
The collection allowance is to a half percent of the first $1200 of the amount due not to exceed $30.
Dealers who file their returns or make payments by a method other than electronic means are not entitled to a collection of allowance.
Sales Tax
2. Each sale, omission charge, storage, or rental is taxable unless the transaction is exempt. Sales tax is added to the price of the taxable goods or service and collected from the purchaser at the time of the sale. Florida’s general sales tax rate is 6%.

•  The tax dollars you collect belong to Florida at the moment of collection. You serve as the trustee or custodian of these funds until you send them to the Florida Department of revenue.

•  As a Florida business you must:

•  register all business locations before conducting business

•  collect sales tax on each taxable transaction using the bracket system

•  pay use tax on items used by your business that were purchased tax exempt or removed from inventory and not resold

•  send the sales tax you have collected and the use tax owed to the Florida Department of revenue timely by:

•  paying and submitting your tax return online, or

•  sending a completed sales and use tax return

• maintain complete and accurate records on all sales and purchases

•  keep copies of your records for at least three years to support the information on the tax return

•  notify Department of revenue of any address or ownership changes

 
Florida Use Tax
Use tax is due on the use or consumption of taxable goods or services when sales tax was not paid at the time of purchase.
For example:

•   if you buy a taxable item in Florida and didn’t pay sales tax you owe tax

•   if you buy an item tax exempt and tending to resell it and then use the item in your business or for personal use, you owe use tax

•   if you buy a taxable item outside of Florida and bringing or have it delivered into the state and you didn’t pay sales tax on the item, you owe use tax.

 
Discretionary Sales Surtax
Most Florida counties have a discretionary surtax (County tax) that applies to most transactions subject to the sales or use tax.
The county surtax rate applies to a taxable item or service delivered into account the imposing a surtax. The surtax rate that applies to motor vehicles and mobile homes is determined by the home address of the purchaser.
You can find the tax rates reached County from the Florida Department of revenue (Form DR – 15 DSS) in which you sell or deliver taxable goods or services.
For certain transactions, only the first $5000 of a taxable sale or purchase is subject to the discretionary sales surtax.
 
How Tax is calculated
 

•  Sales tax and discretionary sales surtax are calculated on each taxable transaction. Florida uses the bracket system for calculating sales tax when the transaction involved between two whole dollar amounts.
• 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 Department of revenue has rate tables (Form DR-2X) to help you.

 
Who Must Pay Tax

•   before you begin business in Florida, you must first find out if your business activity or products used will be subject to sales or use tax. If it is, you must register to collect sales tax or pay use tax.

A partial list of business activities that are taxable:
1. sales of taxable items at retail
2. repairs or alterations of tangible personal property
3. Reynolds, leases, or license to use real property(for example, commercial office space, many warehouses, or short-term living accommodations)
4. rental or lease of personal property
5. charges for admission to any place of amusement, sport or recreation
6. operating private membership clubs that provide recreational or physical fitness facilities
7. manufacturing or producing goods for sale at retail
8. importing goods from any state or for country, for sale at retail or for use in the business or for pleasure
9. selling service warranty contract
10. ordering and using, a regular basis, mail order products on which no sales tax was charged
11. operating vending or amusement machines
12. providing taxable services
If you need tax professionals to help deal with the matter owing Florida sales tax and dealing with tax warrants call us today for a free initial tax consultation and speak directly to true expert tax professionals.
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Sales Tax – Florida – Audit, Help, Problems – Attorneys, Former Agents