Hotels & Lodging in Seminole County, FL (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Seminole County, Florida.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Seminole County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Transient Occupancy Tax
Seminole County imposes a countywide 5% Tourist Development Tax on every hotel, motel, apartment hotel, rooming house, mobile home park, RV park, condominium or apartment rented for six months or less. The Seminole County Tax Collector collects and enforces the tax under Sec. 245.81, with returns due monthly and penalties for late filing or nonpayment.
Seminole County's 5% Tourist Development Tax
Some RestrictionsSeminole County Code § 245.81
(a)There is hereby levied and imposed a county-wide Tourist Development Tax in Seminole County, Florida, at the rate of five percent of each whole and major fraction of each dollar of the total consideration charged to 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, ro...
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