Sanford, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

Section 98-99 taxes "Secondhand Dealer" at a flat $37.50 a year, while the separate "Junk Dealer" classification in the same schedule costs $52.50 plus an additional $75.00 for each vehicle the business operates for collection or hauling. In the Land Development Regulations, § 11.2 defines "Secondhand store" as an establishment selling used clothing, used furniture, used books, flea market goods, and similar used merchandise, including incidental repair departments, and the definition expressly excludes pawnshops, which are licensed and defined separately as "Pawnbroker" businesses. A broader retail-use listing in the same section describes a secondhand store as one "primarily engaged in the retail selling of used merchandise and good directly to ultimate consumers and not for resale," and allows repair departments only if they stay incidental to that retail selling.

Section 98-91(a) requires the local business tax receipt before a secondhand or junk dealer opens, with a separate receipt required under § 98-91(b) for each location and for each classification a business falls into. Section 98-93(b) runs the tax year from July 1 through September 30, and unpaid tax draws a 10 percent penalty in October plus 5 percent for each additional month, capped at 25 percent of the amount due.