Florida GOP Advances Bill On Abolishing Property Tax

January 31, 2024 Politics, Republicans

Florida Politics reports:

A controversial idea is again gaining ground in the Legislature: eliminating property taxes and replacing them with a new “consumption tax” tacked onto the sales of goods and services across the state. The change, said Republican Rep. Ryan Chamberlin, would put an end to what some have called “the most hated tax in America.”

“I believe it’s time,” he told members of the House Ways and Means Committee, which voted 15-6 for a measure (HB 1371) Chamberlin is sponsoring to study shifting a huge tax burden from homeowners to consumers.

Chamberlin, a freshman Republican, said of property taxes, “They create an arrangement under which homeowners never truly own their domiciles. We all simply rent it from the state, and as long as we pay those rents, then we can use the property we hold a deed for,” he said. “This is not a tax; it is slavery.”

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Democrats are pointing out that making up the revenue by increasing the sales tax “disproportionately hurts lower-income residents for whom the cost of goods and services make up a larger portion of their income.”

Rep. Ryan Chamberlin (photo above) last appeared here for his bill that would expand Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law to all state workplaces and would ban LGBTQ nonprofits from eligibility for state grants.

Chamberlin belongs to a Pentecostal church and launched a failed bid for the US House in 2020, finishing sixth in the GOP primary. His predecessor, former Rep. Joe “Don’t Say Gay” Harding, began a five month federal prison sentence on COVID fraud charges earlier this month.



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