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Hotels & Lodging in Pinellas County, FL (2026)

1 rule for unincorporated Pinellas County, Florida.

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

Transient Occupancy Tax

Pinellas County levies a 6 percent tourist development tax on rentals of 6 months or less at hotels, motels, condos, timeshares, RV parks and mobile home parks, countywide including incorporated cities. The County Tax Collector collects, audits and enforces the tax under Code § 118-31, with misdemeanor penalties for operators who fail to charge or collect it and a 3-year refund window for overpayments.

Pinellas County 6% Tourist Development Tax

Some Restrictions

Pinellas County Code § 118-31(a), (c)

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

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