Incentives

Financial Incentive | Sales Tax Exemption | Florida Tax Advantages | Other Incentives

Florida has a variety of advantages that make it a profitable site for nearly every type of business. Progressive legislation continues to ensure that Florida will remain a magnet for new and expanding businesses.

• NO corporate income tax on limited partnerships
• NO corporate income tax on subchapter S-corporations
• NO state personal income tax guaranteed by constitutional provision
• NO state-level property tax assessed
• NO property tax on business inventories
• NO property tax on goods-in-transit for up to 180 days
• NO sales and use tax on goods manufactured or produced in Florida for export outside the state
• NO sales tax on purchases of raw materials incorporated in a final product for resale, including non-reusable containers or packaging
• NO sales/use tax on boiler fuels
• NO sales/use tax on electricity used in the manufacturing process

• Silicon technology-based industry transactions involving manufacturing or research equipment
• Motion Picture & Television production equipment and real property
• Purchases of machinery and equipment used by a new or expanding Florida business to manufacture, produce or process tangible personal property for sale
• Labor, parts and materials used in repair of and incorporated into machinery and equipment that qualify for sales tax exemption upon purchase (phased in over four years, 50% exempt on July 1, 2000)
• Aircraft parts, modification, maintenance and repair, sale or lease of qualified aircraft
• Commercial space activity-launch vehicles, payloads and fuel, machinery and equipment for production of items used exclusively at Spaceport Florida
• Labor component of research and development expenditures

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