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JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Calls For Special Session To Deal With Property Tax Issues

Published May 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 19:46

But we worked really hard to be able to land at this. I think a lot of people are going to be very excited to have an opportunity to be able to do it. We are going to put out a website where you'll be able to put in your property address and see what you will get once this is enacted. And you'll be able to do it for the initial 250 and then you'll be able to do it when the legislature raises it to 500. (19:46–19:59)

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“Citizens lowered rates for the first time ever.”
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“With the data centers, they take up as much power as a city of half a million people.”
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“The total amount of that budget, both in terms of the top line and then what they kind of put in the back of the bill, is roughly in line…”
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“Next fiscal year, we will be spending less as a state than current fiscal year.”
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“Current fiscal year, we're spending less than the year before, and the year before we spent less than the year before that.”
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“I'm going to be momentarily issuing a proclamation for a special legislative session beginning on Monday of next week for the purpose of…”
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“The primary purpose of that [initiative] is to make your homestead property tax free.”
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“Local governments, you get all this residential property tax from the non-homestead and from the commercial.”
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“We've always focused on the homestead portion of it, which again is actually less money than local governments get from residential…”
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“We've done about $10 billion in tax relief since I've been governor.”
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“The proposal that we are going to work with the legislature on to be on the ballot will begin with an initial raising of the homestead limit…”
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“A $250,000 limit that eliminates property tax for 60% of Florida homeowners once you put a schedule in.”
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“When you raise to 500,000 limit, that's 92% of all Florida residents would be tax free.”
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“Under current law, they can raise valuations of small businesses by up to 10% each and every year. This proposal cuts that limit in half.”
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“I don't think there's ever been a state in the history of the country that has seen the amount of income and people flow into the state…”
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“If you establish residence after this passes, we can insist on up to five years of you paying tax under the old system.”
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“We are creating in this a trust fund in state government that will be able to provide grants to local governments for support for these core…”
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“We did all baby items permanently exempt from tax. Diapers, wipes, cribs, strollers, all that stuff.”
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“We eliminated the business rent tax on small businesses.”
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“I mentioned that I would sign a suspension of our state fuel tax.”
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“We've done a lot of stuff to reform our insurance market. We now have 20 companies that have come in since we did those reforms a few years…”
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“Peninsula did an 8% average reduction.”
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“This 50 million that was in the budget, I don't think they were ever talking about 150 in the budget for now.”
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