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Florida county sales tax takes a three-month dip.(The Orlando Sentinel)
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. _ Shoppers in Seminole County may want to double-check their receipts from now until the end of the year.
Because of a quirk in state law, the sales tax in Seminole dropped from 7 percent to 6 percent Monday and then go back up to 7 percent on Jan. 1. But it's up to each merchant to reprogram its cash registers accordingly _ and up to shoppers to make sure they don't get overcharged.
On big-ticket items, it could mean a difference of $50.
A little history:
County voters agreed in 1991 to pay an extra penny in sales tax to improve county roads, bumping up the tax rate from 6 cents to 7 cents on the dollar. That tax expired Sunday. But early last month, voters agreed to bring back the penny tax for another 10 years for more road work and for school projects.
But the new tax doesn't kick in until Jan. 1. That's because state lawmakers decided in 1998 that the effective date for any new local sales-tax initiative must be the start of a calendar year.
The Florida Department of Revenue, which oversees sales-tax collection, notified some 14,000 Seminole businesses on Sept. 14 about the fluctuation in the sales tax. But several store managers say they didn't know about it.
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