Florida Sales Tax Calculator

What you pay in Florida: state tax plus a county surtax

Florida sales tax has two layers. The state charges 6 percent on the sale of most tangible goods, and most counties add a discretionary sales surtax of their own. The two are added together, so the rate you pay depends on where the purchase happens.

The county layer is called a discretionary sales surtax because each county decides whether to levy it, and the Florida Legislature caps it. Rates run from 0.5 percent to 2 percent, and a handful of counties levy none at all. Add that to the 6 percent state rate and the combined rate is somewhere between 6.0 percent and 8.0 percent.

The surtax follows the item, not the shop. If you buy a sofa in a county with no surtax and have it delivered into a county with one, the delivering county's rate applies, because that is where the sale is considered to take place. Motor vehicles and mobile homes are the exception, and they use the county of the buyer's home address.

All of this is published by the state. The Florida Department of Revenue sales tax page explains the rules and links to the county rate list, which is the source for the numbers used on this page.

County discretionary surtax rates for 2026

The county rates below are the total surtax in each county for calendar year 2026, taken from the Department of Revenue publication DR-15DSS (revision 11/25). Add 6 percent to any number in the first column to get the combined rate.

Rates are not fixed forever. The Department revises the list each November for the year ahead, and individual surtaxes carry expiration dates, so a county can move up or down on 1 January. Two counties changed for 2026: Palm Beach and Martin both dropped from 1.0 percent to 0.5 percent, one because a school capital outlay surtax was repealed and the other because a school surtax expired. If you are reading this close to a year end, check the current list before relying on a rate for a large purchase.

Worked example: a $1,200 laptop in four counties

Take a laptop with a $1,200.00 price tag before tax. The state takes 6 percent of $1,200.00, which is $72.00, in every county. What changes is the second line.

The spread between the cheapest and the dearest county on this one purchase is $24.00, which is the difference between 0 and 2 percent of $1,200.00. Put another way, every $100.00 you spend costs $6.00 of tax in Collier County, $7.00 in Miami-Dade and $8.00 in Hamilton.

On a bigger purchase the gap grows in the same proportion. Ten thousand dollars of furniture carries $600.00 of state tax everywhere in Florida, plus anywhere from nothing to $200.00 more depending on the delivery address.

Worked example: a receipt that already includes tax

Sometimes the number you have is the total, not the price. If you paid $1,070.00 for something in a 7.0 percent county and want to know the price and the tax, divide by 1.07. That gives $1,000.00 of price and $70.00 of tax.

The check runs the other way: $1,000.00 times 1.07 is $1,070.00. In a 6.5 percent county the same $1,000.00 item would come to $1,065.00, so a total of $1,065.00 divides by 1.065 to give $1,000.00 and $65.00 of tax. The calculator shows this line automatically, so you can paste in a receipt total and see what part of it was tax.

This matters for anything you can deduct or reimburse. If you are claiming state sales tax paid as an itemized deduction, the figure you need is the tax, not the total, and the IRS sales tax deduction calculator is the tool the federal side points to.

What is taxed and what is not

Florida taxes the sale of tangible personal property, which covers most of what people budget for: furniture, electronics, appliances, clothing, cars, boats and building materials. Clothing is taxed here, unlike in a few states that exempt it.

The main exemptions that show up in a household budget are groceries and medicine. Most food products bought to be prepared and eaten at home are exempt, while prepared food, restaurant meals and drinks sold ready to drink are taxed. Prescription medicines are exempt. Beyond that the list gets detailed, covering things like certain medical equipment, agricultural items and manufacturing machinery, and the Department of Revenue publishes the full list.

Services are mostly outside the tax. Repair labor that is billed separately from parts is generally not taxed, while the parts are. Labour that is part of producing or installing something can be taxed differently again, and work on real property follows its own set of rules. If a line on your bill is labor rather than goods, ask the business how it treats that line before you assume the rate applies.

Florida has also run annual sales tax holidays for things like disaster supplies, school supplies and clothing in some years. The dates, the items and the price limits change from year to year, so treat them as a bonus rather than something to plan a purchase around, and check the current year list before assuming an item is free of tax.

Vehicles, boats and mobile homes

Vehicles follow a different rule for the county layer. The surtax rate that applies to a motor vehicle or a mobile home is the rate in the county of the purchaser's home address, not the county where the dealer sits, because that is where the vehicle will be used. The same 6 percent state rate applies either way.

On a purchase from a dealer, the dealer collects the tax and the surtax and handles the paperwork. On a private sale, there is no dealer to collect anything, and the tax is paid when the buyer registers the vehicle with the county tax collector. If you are budgeting for a private sale, work the tax into the price you can afford rather than discovering it at the counter.

Boats and aircraft have their own registration and use tax rules, and a vessel bought outside Florida and brought in can owe use tax as well. For anything with a title and a hull number, ask the tax collector's office what applies before you rely on a number from a general calculator.

Mistakes that cost money

Most sales tax errors on a Florida bill come from one of five things, and each one is easy to check.

• Using last year's county rate. The list is revised each November, so a rate you memorised may be a year out of date. Palm Beach and Martin both moved to 0.5 percent for 2026.
• Billing the store's county instead of the delivery county. The surtax follows where the item lands, so a delivery across a county line changes the rate.
• Forgetting the surtax on a big ticket item. At 1 percent, a $30,000.00 purchase carries $300.00 of county tax on top of the $1,800.00 state tax, and 2 percent doubles the county part to $600.00.
• Assuming labor is taxed. A quote that splits parts and labor may tax only the parts. Ask before you add 6 or 7 percent to the whole figure.
• Applying one rate to the whole state. A business selling into several counties collects a different combined rate for each one, and that is normal.

When the amount is small, the difference between counties is a couple of dollars and not worth the effort. When it is a car, a boat or a kitchen, the county column on the rate list is worth two minutes of your time.