Hotels & Lodging in Monroe County, FL (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Monroe County, Florida.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Monroe County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Transient Occupancy Tax
Every hotel, motel, and other short-term lodging in Monroe County, including the unincorporated Florida Keys, collects a 4 percent Tourist Development Tax on rent for stays of six months or less. Monroe County Code § 23-197 levies the tax countywide, on top of the state sales tax, funding tourism promotion, beaches, and convention facilities.
Monroe County 4% Tourist Development Tax
Some RestrictionsMonroe County Code § 23-197
(a)There shall be levied through the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Monroe County, Florida, a tourist development tax at a rate of four 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 motel, roo...
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