Dunnellon increases fees for business tax receipts by 5%

Business owners in Dunnellon are going to have to pay the piper a bit more each year to obtain and maintain their Business Tax receipts—5% more, actually.

Local Business Tax Receipts, formerly known as occupational licenses, require a fee to be paid in order to open a business for the first time and for each year the business is running.

Until now, this fee has been $60.29 per year. On April 10, the Dunnellon City Council passed an ordinance for the fee to be increased by 5%, effectively raising the fee to $63.30 per year.

Tax receipt payments are due and payable by Oct. 1 of each year and expire on Sept. 30.

Florida Statute allows for local governments to increase the tax every other year, by a maximum of 5%.

The Dunnellon City Council increased the fee by the maximum of 5% every other year from 2001 until 2007, and again by the same amount in both 2017 and 2022.

In 1994, the fee was only $45 per year. Now, 30 years later, it increases again to $63.30.