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FL S1950

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/12/2010

Primary Sponsor

Don Gaetz

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Origin

Senate

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Defines "person who operates transient accommodations" as the person conducting daily affairs and providing services at hotels, motels, condominiums, timeshare resorts, and similar facilities, regardless of whether third parties provide services.

  • Excludes payments received by unrelated persons for facilitating reservation bookings from the definition of taxable rental consideration under tourist development tax, convention development tax, and transient rentals tax.

  • Requires persons operating transient accommodations to separately state taxes from rental charges on receipts, invoices, and documentation, except for unrelated booking facilitators.

  • Declares the act's amendments clarifying and remedial in nature, prohibiting them from being the basis for tax assessments or refunds before July 1, 2010.

  • Updates cross-references in tax administration statutes to reflect the new subsection designations created by this bill.

Legislative Description

Tax on Transient Accommodations [WPSC]

Last Action

Withdrawn from Commerce; Community Affairs; Finance and Tax; Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means -SJ 00268; Withdrawn from further consideration -SJ 00268

3/18/2010

Committee Referrals

Commerce2/17/2010

Full Bill Text

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