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Hotels & Lodging in Alachua County, FL (2026)

1 rule for unincorporated Alachua County, Florida.

Verified from official government sources

Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Alachua County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Transient Occupancy Tax

Alachua County levies a 5% tourist development tax, stacked as 2%, 1%, 1% and 1% increments, on rentals of six months or less in any hotel, motel, apartment hotel, roominghouse, tourist camp, trailer camp or condominium. The Alachua County Tax Collector administers collection, remittance and enforcement countywide.

Alachua County Tourist Development Tax

Some Restrictions

Alachua County Code § 38.01

(a)There is hereby levied, imposed, and set a tourist development tax throughout Alachua County at a rate of two percent of each whole and major fraction of each dollar of the total rental charged every person who rents, leases, or lets for consideration any living quarters or accommodations in any hotel, apartment hotel, motel, resort motel, apartment, apartment motel, roominghouse, tourist ca...

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