5 things to know

    Exit 1 Your share

    What you pay the State

    Florida has no personal income tax. You pay the State when you shop, fill up and pay some monthly bills. Tell us roughly what you spend to see your share.

    Your spending

    Sets your county’s sales surtax and local fuel taxes, which are shown separately because they go to local governments, not the State.

    Monthly spending on taxable purchases
    a month

    Most goods, restaurant meals, alcohol and many services are taxed. Groceries, medicine, rent on your home and most professional services are not.

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    Phone, TV & internet: monthly service charges, before taxes
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    Not taxed: federal law bars taxes on internet access.

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    One price for a bundle? Florida taxes the whole bundle unless your provider can identify the internet share from its records, so enter a bundle that includes TV under TV.

    More: a car, a home sale or mortgage, your school tax

    The deed’s documentary stamp tax, which the seller customarily pays in Florida.

    The borrower pays the documentary stamp tax on the note and the intangible tax on the mortgage.

    On your TRIM notice. The Legislature sets the “Required Local Effort” part of your school property tax each year to fund the FEFP; your school district levies it.

    Your Florida taxes, roughly

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    What your state taxes buy

    How this estimate is calculated

    Exit 2 Is that a lot?

    How Florida compares

    State taxes per resident in every state, and the sales tax rate in every Florida county.

    State taxes per resident

    Sales tax in every county

    Exit 3 The short version

    What changed this year

    Exit 4 To scale

    Every agency, to scale

    Each bar starts at zero. Choose an agency to open its programs, staff and line items.

    The whole budget

    Florida, one dot per

      Exit 5 Where it goes

      What the budget buys

      The budget by program area and by kind of spending, then every agency.

      By program area

      General Revenue is the State’s flexible money; trust funds are earmarked, including federal grants.

      By kind of spending

      Explore by agency

      Exit 6 Where it comes from

      Where the money comes from

      The budget by fund

      General Revenue, by source

      Reserves

      State debt

      Exit 7 Under construction

      What’s being built

      Transportation work program by county

      The five-year work program

      Largest county programs this year

      Construction money by agency

      Exit 8 Close to home

      The local projects in the budget

      What is funded near me?

      Project funding by county

      What kinds of projects

      What each legislator delivered

      Cities ranked

      Every project

      Exit 9 The red pen

      What the Governor vetoed

      Vetoes by agency

      The largest vetoes

      Every veto

      Exit 11 Budget basics

      How Florida’s budget works

      From request to law — and what’s next

        Questions

        Glossary

        Why numbers differ

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        Methodology & corrections

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