To qualify for the homestead exemption, you must be a resident of Florida, have a legal right to the property and the home must be your primary residence as of Jan. 1.

New for 2025 would be a sales tax holiday for the purchase of guns and ammunition and another tax holiday that would reduce ...

House Speaker Daniel Perez defended a bill that would repeal a law shielding information about school presidential candidates ...

His push for a lower sales tax rate comes as Gov. Ron Desantis is calling for increasing the homestead exemption or possibly ...

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Skeptics of eliminating property taxes have argued that Florida would have to boost sales taxes to make up for lost revenue.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Daniel Perez came out Wednesday with a proposal to decrease the state sales-tax rate from 6 percent ...

Perez defends bill to repeal law shielding information on candidates before Board of Governors of state’s public universities ...

Florida lawmakers are considering a controversial change to the state's minimum wage law. Learn more about the proposed ...

Perez equated a 2022 law that provided exemptions to public-records and public-meetings laws for presidential searches to a ...

Under current law, higher education presidential searches have been twisted during the last few years into games where the ...

Some Alabama politicians have pushed boundaries of residency requirements to run for various offices across the state.