{"id":347848,"date":"2026-07-21T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:24:07","slug":"florida-hurricane-prep-items-now-sales-tax-free-year-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347848\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida hurricane prep items now sales-tax free year-round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FLORIDA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) &#8211; Hurricane disaster preparedness items are now exempt from state sales tax year-round in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Items covered under the exemption include batteries, portable generators up to 10,000 watts, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Items such as insect repellent, sunscreen, life jackets, waterproof tarps, ground anchor systems, tie-down kits and portable gas or diesel cans up to five gallons are also exempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local sales taxes may still apply.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORIDA (WALA) &#8211; Hurricane disaster preparedness items are now exempt from state sales tax year-round in Florida. Items&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,142349,142348,142350,32469],"class_list":["post-347848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hurricane-preparedness-items","tag-sale-tax-exemption","tag-tax-free","tag-year-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347848","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=347848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}