{"id":186363,"date":"2026-03-10T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186363\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:34:07","slug":"property-tax-cut-issue-faces-election-winners-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186363\/","title":{"rendered":"Property tax cut issue faces election winners in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 As Florida voters decide local races in cities and villages across the state, big decisions over cutting property taxes are possibly ahead.<\/p>\n

“That really is the $18 billion question,” says Charles Chapman of the Florida League of Cities.<\/p>\n

WATCH BELOW: Property tax cut issue faces election winners in Florida<\/p>\n

Property tax cut issue faces election winners in Florida<\/p>\n

As elections are being held, Chapman says many municipalities are at the halfway point of their budgets and are looking ahead at how they spend.<\/p>\n

Republican lawmakers, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, insisted that the tax collection and spending are too much.<\/p>\n

House lawmakers have approved two bills on property tax reform<\/a>, but the Senate has yet to act, and a special session to deal with the issue is likely.<\/p>\n

A recent study that involved the League of Cities<\/a> found that eliminating non-school homestead property taxes would challenge 116 cities in the state to pay for public safety.<\/p>\n

“If you’re Greenacres and you’re at 33 percent relying on homestead and suddenly a third of that tax revenue is taken away,” Chapman says.<\/p>\n

The town of Briny Breezes, on the other hand, he says, relies on 18%, presenting different choices for each municipality.<\/p>\n

If lawmakers can agree on a property tax-cutting plan, it would have to be approved by voters in November by a 60% margin.<\/p>\n

And if voters give their approval, then local governments need to start looking at the hard choices in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 As Florida voters decide local races in cities and villages across the state,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,557,2871],"class_list":["post-186363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-palm-beach-county","tag-palm-beach-county-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}