4/24/25 replace:
The Florida Home will hear the Tax Bundle (HB7033 and HB1221) on the Home flooring on Friday, 4/25. If it passes, it might then transfer to the Senate subsequent week. Please make your voices heard utilizing the assets under!

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A proposal to get rid of county tourism promotion is shifting by way of the Florida Legislature.

Amendments to Home Tax Bundle - HB 7033 and HB 1221 - would get rid of using Vacationer Improvement Tax (TDT) revenues for tourism promotion and advertising and marketing.

This laws is a direct assault on Florida’s tourism trade and the hundreds of thousands of Floridians whose jobs, companies and communities depend on customer spending.

If handed, these payments would:

  • Remove funding for tourism advertising and marketing and amenities
  • Dissolve each Vacationer Improvement Council in Florida by the top of the yr
  • Power a referendum each eight years simply to maintain native tourism {dollars}
  • Convey a couple of lack of jobs within the Keys, not simply at inns and points of interest, however in all segments of the group
  • Reduce important tourism funding for coral restoration, seashore cleansing, funding for Keys arts and tradition and extra.

Tourism is Florida’s primary financial driver and guests fund our Monroe County financial system.  

If these payments move, residents can pay extra and get much less. And different states will profit from our loss. 

Now’s the time to behave. Locations Florida is asking us and all of you to:

  • Contact your representatives and urge them to vote NO on this laws
  • Make your voice heard with the native media
  • Share your tales with us about how tourism impacts your online business and group and what’s at stake. Ship to: tdcalert@fla-keys.com

The Florida Keys depend on tourism. Let’s defend our future and make our voices heard.  

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Amendments to each payments (HB 7033 & HB 1221) would get rid of using Vacationer Improvement Tax (TDT) revenues for tourism promotion and advertising and marketing. Together with:

  1. Tourism promotion and promoting
  2. Seaside renourishment and environmental enhancements
  3. Conference facilities
  4.  Skilled and spring coaching sports activities amenities
  5.  Dissolve all county Vacationer Improvement Councils
  6. Limit spending of TDT to solely current contracts in pressure as of January 1, 2025
  7. Require counties to cut back their property tax levy beginning FY 2026-2027 by the quantity of TDT collected

Enable tourism promotion companies to be reauthorized provided that funded from non-TDT sources