Hollywood, FL Local Taxes & Fees: Business Tax Classification (2026)

024(A)(1) splits contracting into eight classes: general contractors, building contractors and subbuilding contractors each pay $100 per year, while specialty, electrical, plumbing and gas, mechanical, and sign contractors each pay $60 per year, and each classification requires its own separate local business tax receipt rather than one blanket receipt covering every trade a firm touches. 024(A)(2) requires liability insurance of at least $50,000 for bodily injury or death to one person, $100,000 for bodily injury or death to more than one person, and $25,000 for property damage, with a certificate on file with the Director of Financial Services and a 30-day cancellation notice clause.

If that coverage lapses or is cancelled, the Director notifies the Chief Building Inspector, who then issues no new permits to that contractor, and if the lapse happens mid-construction the Inspector issues a stop-order until proof of coverage is refiled. 024(B)(1) allows a specialty contractor to perform incidental work in a second craft under a contract without a separate receipt for that incidental trade. 024(C) makes a validly dated certificate of competency a prerequisite: no local business tax receipt issues until that certificate is presented and the tax is paid. The classification and rate table has stood since Ordinance O-66-22 with amendments through Ordinance O-2007-07.