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Originally Posted by cquick
I think ALL the owners who rent should include it in the rent...upfront....my friends were all set to rent a house here in The Villages last year but when the contract arrived in the mail the 9% tax was added on.....they rented a house which had the tax included in the rent.....they felt it was sneaky of the owner to quote one price, but then add the tax on separate.
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Just so everyone is clear ..... the 9% is made up of a 7% sales tax and a 2% short term rental fee (less than 6 mos).
The 7% is made up of a 6% State of Fla sales tax and a 1% county supplemental sales tax (this varies by county) and goes into the state's & county's gen tax revenue.
The 2% county short term rental fee (also known as a "bed tax") is typically used to fund a county's Tourist Development Board. That was the $$$ used by Sumter Co. to fund the now infamous "Brownwood entertainment grant".