Hotels & Lodging in Charlotte County, FL (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Charlotte County, Florida.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Charlotte County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Transient Occupancy Tax
Charlotte County levies a 5% tourist development tax on every rental of six months or less at a hotel, motel, apartment, condominium, RV park or mobile home park, under Sec. 1-7-46(a). The tax stacks on top of Florida's own sales tax and other charges, and the county collects and audits it locally rather than through the state.
Charlotte County 5% Tourist Development Tax
Some RestrictionsCharlotte County Code Sec. 1-7-46(a)
(a)There is hereby levied, imposed and set a tourist development tax throughout the county, at a rate of five (5) 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, rooming house, mobile ho...
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