How can Floridians afford to fund the rich budgets of their local governments when their government’s income grows twice as fast as their own income?

As Florida Property Taxes Skyrocket, how is the growth of government revenue doing compared to the growth of personal revenue of taxpaying Floridians? Here are some telling statistics that show how the government gets rich every day off of the paper value of your property. While you look richer on paper, your actual income can’t keep up with the income of the local governments.



How can Floridians afford to fund the rich budgets of their local governments when their government’s income grows twice as fast as their own income?

Source: Florida Senate Property Tax Facts http://www.flsenate.gov/data/committees/senate/ft/statistics.pdf



Florida Property Taxes Have grown out of control since 2000. While inflation has grown
only about 14%, from 2001-2006, Florida Property Taxes have grown about 83%. The population has grown at only 12%. Personal income growth over that time has been at 37%, less than half the increase in property tax collections. Floridians can take no more.

One of our affiliated groups, Cut Taxes Now, has analyzed the county by county breakdown of tax increases, compared to the increase in population and inflation from 2001-2006. Data was taken from sources available in from the State of Florida, Florida Association of Counties and U.S. Census bureau.

How does your county stack up?

Below are the tax histories by all counties in alphabetical and descending order. Asterisks (*) indicate counties that have been designated "fiscally constrained" by the state and that some are advocating be exempt from meaningful property tax reform. NOTE THAT SOME OF THE WORST OFFENDERS
MIGHT BE EXEMPT FROM TAX REFORM!

Find your county below