The Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, along with the Florida Department of Revenue, have extended deadlines for certain entity and tax filings, including payment requirements, including the following:
- Annual report filings for entities registered with the state of Florida has been extended to June 30, 2020 (normal deadline is May 1st).
- Property taxes for 2019 payment deadline has been extended to April 15, 2020 (normal deadline is March 31st).
- For sales and use tax, as well as other related tax returns and payments:
- Taxpayers who were unable to meet the March 20th due date for taxes collected in February will have penalty and interest waived, if the taxes are reported and remitted by March 31, 2020.
- Taxpayers who have been adversely affected by COVID-19 have an extended due date to April 30, 2020 for such taxes collected in March.
- Taxpayers who have not been adversely affected by COVID-19 are required to continue to file and remit taxes no later than the normal due date of April 20, 2020.
- An adversely affected taxpayer is defined as a business that:
- closed in March 2020 in compliance with a state or local governmental order and following the closure, had no taxable sales transactions as a result of such closure; or
- experienced sales tax collections in March 2020 that were less than 75% of March 2019 sales tax collections; or
- was established after March 2019; or
- is registered to file quarterly.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you should have any questions regarding the above.
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