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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
My guess would be it is directly tied to tourism. Hotel/Motel taxes, rental car taxes, taxes on Disney - Sea World etc. attractions, taxes on rentals. Taxes take many forms and it simply is a matter of how and on what they are assessed. Since Florida benefits from a hearty tourism business, the tourists are taxed rather than the residents. In most states that is not an option.
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I'm too lazy to look it up, but I bet it would be interesting to see how much Florida's revenues are from the Occupational Tax, Alcohol Tax(es), Food Tax (for eating out) and other tourism related taxes we do have. If you have to get your money, that seems like a very fair way to do it...and it seems to be working.