TALLAHASSEE -- As Florida real estate prices rose in recent years, many people felt trapped in their homes because moving would mean getting hit with a property tax bill that could at least double or ...

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South Florida’s housing market is at a stalemate caused, in part, by would-be home sellers who are loath to give up their low interest rates, and have an aversion to upsizing a property tax bill that ...

More than 2,600 Broward County residents have applied to take their tax breaks with them to a new home in the month since voters approved a property tax relief proposal allowing the long-sought ...

BARTOW — Polk County Property Appraiser Marsha Faux has changed the way her office calculates the taxable value of some homes eligible for homestead portability tax breaks under Florida's Save Our ...

We are very fortunate in Florida not to have a personal income tax. That has helped fuel Florida's growth and economic prosperity, but it has also resulted in heavy reliance by local governments on ad ...