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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XIV
TAXATION AND FINANCE
Chapter 205
LOCAL BUSINESS TAXES
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205.0315 Ordinance adoption after October 1, 1995.Beginning October 1, 1995, a county or municipality that has not adopted a business tax ordinance or resolution may adopt a business tax ordinance. The business tax rate structure and classifications in the adopted ordinance must be reasonable and based upon the rate structure and classifications prescribed in ordinances adopted by adjacent local governments that have implemented s. 205.0535. If no adjacent local government has implemented s. 205.0535, or if the governing body of the county or municipality finds that the rate structures or classifications of adjacent local governments are unreasonable, the rate structure or classifications prescribed in its ordinance may be based upon those prescribed in ordinances adopted by local governments that have implemented s. 205.0535 in counties or municipalities that have a comparable population.
History.s. 1, ch. 93-180; s. 4, ch. 2006-152.

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1996).

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A. Butterworth Attorney General RAB/tgk 1 Section 205.0315, Fla. Stat. (1995), authorizes municipalities
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1996).

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occupational license tax ordinance pursuant to section 205.0315, Florida Statutes, notwithstanding the fact
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2003).

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proceed to revise its rate structure pursuant to section 205.0315, Florida Statutes? Section 1(a), Article VII
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2002).

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...classifications and be uniform throughout any class. 2 A further condition is contained in section 205.043 (1)(b), Florida Statutes, as follows: "Unless the municipality implements s. 205.0535 or adopts a new occupational license tax ordinance under s. 205.0315 , an occupational license tax levied under this subsection may not exceed the rate in effect in the municipality for the year beginning October 1, 1971; however, beginning October 1, 1980, the municipal governing body may increase occupational license taxes authorized by this chapter....
...5 Thus, a municipality must have enacted an ordinance on or before October 1, 1995, to avail itself of the authorization in section 205.0535 , Florida Statutes, to reclassify businesses, professions, and occupations, or to establish a new rate structure for its occupational license tax. 6 Section 205.0315 , Florida Statutes, states: "Beginning October 1, 1995, a county or municipality that has not adopted an occupational license tax ordinance or resolution may adopt an occupational license tax ordinance....
...Barquet , 358 So.2d 230 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978). 6 See , Op. Att'y Gen. Fla. 96-83 (1996) (county foregoing option to enact new occupational license tax by October 1, 1995, not authorized to enact a new occupational license tax ordinance after that date). 7 Section 205.0315 , Fla....
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2004).

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adopted an occupational license tax pursuant to section 205.0315, Florida Statutes. The City of Gainesville
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1995).

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ordinance may adopt a new ordinance pursuant to section 205.0315, Florida Statutes. The City of Plantation
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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2002).

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ordinance or resolution by October 1, 1995, section 205.0315, Florida Statutes, authorizes the adoption