Florida Moves Closer To Slashing Property Tax as 3 Proposals Advance

Florida lawmakers are moving closer to putting a major property tax cut before voters this fall, without yet agreeing on how far to go, or how to pay for it. 

Gov. Ron DeSantis has urged legislators to send “one vehicle” for meaningful relief to the November ballot, and with roughly 3.5 weeks left in the regular session, House committees have advanced three competing constitutional amendment proposals.

The measures would lower taxes for homeowners in sharply different ways, from phasing out nonschool taxes on homesteads to expanding exemptions tied to carrying property insurance, to rewriting Florida’s assessment growth caps. None, however, goes as far as a full property tax wipeout that DeSantis has hinted at.

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