No income tax. So what do you pay?
Florida is one of the few states with no personal income tax — it’s barred by the state constitution (Art. VII §5). The state’s ≈ $114.5 billion budget runs on consumption instead: about 80¢ of every state tax dollar comes from consumption taxes, and the general sales tax alone is ≈ 64%. This page estimates the piece you pay at the register — as a deliberate floor, never an inflated guess — and shows exactly what we are not counting yet, and why.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent, stored, or sold. No accounts, no cookies, no tracking of you. The one network request after load is an anonymous, cookieless page-view count that never includes anything you enter — disclosed in full in the methodology.Your spending
What you pay the state at the register CALC
| Mechanism | Rate | Your est. / yr |
|---|---|---|
| State sales tax — on the three categories above FACT | 6.0% | $573 |
| County discretionary surtax — varies by county | varies | PENDING |
| Fuel taxes, vehicle & license fees, other state levies | — | PENDING |
| Verifiable floor | $573 |
Formula, in full: your three-category spending × Florida’s 6.0% state sales-tax rate. Much more of what you buy is taxable too (furnishings, electronics, most services at retail), so your real figure is higher than shown — that’s what makes this a floor, not an estimate dressed up as precision.
If your dollars followed the FY 2026-27 budget… PENDING
On the Colorado instance this is where your payments are allocated across departments in budget proportions. The $100 receipt now divides Florida’s budget act by its seven sections. Spreading your payments across those sections here is not built yet, and we won’t approximate it from mixed-basis agency totals.
The round trip
§The fine print — every mechanism, disclosed
What’s counted, what isn’t, and why the number above is deliberately low.
- State sales tax — 6.0% FACT (Ch. 212, F.S.). Groceries and prescriptions are exempt and excluded. We count only three spending categories we can verify as predominantly state-taxable — dining out, apparel, entertainment ($9,555/yr for the average household, BLS CE 2024). Furnishings, electronics and much else are taxable too, so the real figure is higher than shown.
- County discretionary surtaxes — not counted. Most Florida counties levy a local surtax on top of the 6%; the rate varies by county and year. It lands here as a county-accurate PENDING upgrade sourced from the Department of Revenue’s official surtax table — not from a guess.
- Fuel taxes, vehicle & license fees — not counted. Real money you pay the state, with a rate structure that varies by county and fuel type. Excluded until we cite the official DOR rate tables, which further understates your total.
- Tourist & transaction taxes — not counted. Documentary-stamp taxes on real estate, insurance-premium tax, lodging taxes: some are paid by you indirectly. All excluded from the floor.
- What businesses pay — out of scope. Corporate income tax and commercial-rent taxes fund the same budget but aren’t “your register receipt”; this page measures household payments only.
- No income tax — the structural fact. The state constitution (Art. VII §5) bars a personal income tax. How Floridians feel about spending is its own tracked signal — see the Confidence page. That means visitors — 100M+ a year — pay a meaningful share of Florida’s budget at the same registers you do. It also means there is no April reckoning where you see your state bill in one number: the register is the reckoning, which is exactly why this page exists.
Production upgrades, tracked in the open
(1) County surtax rates from the DOR’s official table → a county-accurate figure instead of a floor. (2) Fuel-tax rate stack from DOR → a per-vehicle line. (3) Your dollars allocated across the seven sections on the dashboard’s $100 receipt. Each lands as a dated change — never as a silent revision.