May 4, 2007 • 6:00 P.M.
2007 Legislature Adjorns
TALLAHASSEE –- May 4, 2007 – 4:13 p.m. –- Let’s start with the issue most on your mind: property tax relief.
By now you’ve no doubt learned that the Legislature suspended negotiations on Save Our Homes portability, rollbacks and other property tax reform proposals until next month when lawmakers return to Tallahassee for a 10-day special session.
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May 2, 2007 • 10:30 P.M.
The special session on property taxes originally scheduled for the first week of June has been moved back to June 12-22. House and Senate leaders called the special session when it became clear that a deal couldn’t be worked out in the remaining 48 hours of the regular session.
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May 1, 2007 • 10:30 P.M.
Write on! In four days, Florida Realtors have sent more than 25,000 emails to legislators urging them to pass significant property tax reform before the regular session ends Friday evening. Reports on the progress of House and Senate negotiations are mixed.
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April 30, 2007 • 10:30 P.M.
Money matters. House and Senate leaders reached agreement late yesterday on how to divide $71 billion for state services. Lawmakers will spend between now and Friday working through the details.
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April 26, 2007 • 10:30 P.M.
Tie breaker? With the Florida House and Senate at an impasse over the best way to provide immediate property tax relief to thousands of Florida homeowners, Gov. Charlie Crist today announced a plan he considers a reasonable compromise.
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April 25, 2007 • 10:30 P.M.
Try again tomorrow. The Senate came back to the property tax reform conference committee tonight with a new offer: they’ll agree to roll back property rates to 2000-01 levels, but no deal on replacing property taxes on homestead properties with a higher state sales tax.
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April 25, 2007 • 3:30 P.M.
No deal. The House and Senate remain at odds over the best way to deliver “doable” and meaningful property tax relief to Floridians. After a raucous conference committee meeting yesterday, each chamber met separately this morning to try to patch together a compromise.
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April 22, 2007 • 9:30 P.M. - Side-by-side comparison of tax proposals
How would the House and Senate tax plans affect you and your business? On a statewide level, the competing proposals rewrite the way Florida funds local government services, but the impact could be substantial on some property owners while minimal for other owners.
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April 20, 2007 • 2:30 P.M. - Time to work out their differences
Both the House and Senate have confirmed property tax reform plans, and now it’s up to a joint committee to take the bills and, over the next two weeks, create a unified plan that everyone can support.
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April 18, 2007 • 2:30 P.M.
With hundreds of anti-tax demonstrators outside the Capitol urging them on, the Florida House yesterday advanced Speaker Marco Rubio’s (R-Miami) controversial property tax reform package (HJR 7089) to replace property taxes with a 2.5 cent increase in the state sales tax.
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