| 1 | Representative(s) Robaina offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 26 and 27, insert: |
| 5 | Section 2. Subsections (1) and (4) of section 205.0535, |
| 6 | Florida Statutes, are amended to read: |
| 7 | 205.0535 Reclassification and rate structure revisions.-- |
| 8 | (1) By October 1, 2008 1995, any municipality that has |
| 9 | adopted by ordinance a local business tax after October 1, 1995, |
| 10 | or county may, by ordinance, reclassify businesses, professions, |
| 11 | and occupations and may establish new rate structures, if the |
| 12 | conditions specified in subsections (2) and (3) are met. A |
| 13 | person who is engaged in the business of providing local |
| 14 | exchange telephone service or a pay telephone service in a |
| 15 | municipality or in the unincorporated area of a county and who |
| 16 | pays the business tax under the category designated for |
| 17 | telephone companies or a pay telephone service provider |
| 18 | certified pursuant to s. 364.3375 is deemed to have but one |
| 19 | place of business or business location in each municipality or |
| 20 | unincorporated area of a county. Pay telephone service providers |
| 21 | may not be assessed a business tax on a per-instrument basis. |
| 22 | (4) After the conditions specified in subsections (2) and |
| 23 | (3) are met, municipalities and counties may, every other year |
| 24 | thereafter, increase or decrease by ordinance the rates of |
| 25 | business taxes by up to 5 percent. An The increase, however, may |
| 26 | not be enacted by less than a majority plus one vote of the |
| 27 | governing body. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to |
| 28 | prohibit a municipality or county from decreasing or repealing |
| 29 | any business tax authorized under this chapter. |
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| 32 | Remove line 4 and insert: |
| 33 | sales of local business tax receipts; amending s. 205.0535, |
| 34 | F.S.; updating provisions authorizing reclassification and new |
| 35 | rate structure revisions to local business taxes by ordinance; |
| 36 | deleting counties from such authorization provisions; |
| 37 | authorizing decreasing local business tax rates; providing |
| 38 | construction with respect to decreasing or repealing such taxes; |
| 39 | providing an |