Hotels & Lodging in Okaloosa County, FL (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Okaloosa County, Florida.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Okaloosa County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Transient Occupancy Tax
Okaloosa County levies a tourist development tax on every short-term rental of six months or less under Code of Ordinances § 20-71. The rate is six percent inside the county's original tourist subdistrict and five percent in the rest of the county, the 'expansion area.' Hotels, motels, condos, timeshares, and residential dwellings rented short-term all owe the tax, collected by the operator and remitted to the Clerk of Circuit Court.
Okaloosa County Tourist Development Tax
Some RestrictionsOkaloosa County, FL, Code of Ordinances § 20-71
(a)There is hereby levied and imposed a tourist development tax countywide in Okaloosa County, Florida. The tourist development tax will continue to be levied and imposed within the previously created subcounty special district ("subdistrict"), which is depicted on Attachment A (to Ord. No. 2022-33) at the rate of six percent, and within the remaining areas of Okaloosa County ("expansion area")...
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