Gov DeSantis says Florida's sweeping property-tax breaks will give people 'much needed relief'

I'm going to let the legislature, you know, kind of get their feet under them. I'm not just going to throw something on them. You know, we knew this would be something we needed to do. There's a lot of ideas that we've been tossing around for the last six months. And I know that they're going to want to do it. But we want to make sure that we land it in a good way. So I'll work with them. I'll probably let them pick the dates. Thank you. I'm basically on lame duck duty at this point, so I'm very flexible in terms of being able to do it. But yeah, we've got to do it, and I think what it'll do is it'll set the schedule for further homestead expansion, obviously, because we want people to be able to get that, but also limiting local governments from just doing an end run around the amendment and taxing them in other ways. Miami-Dade County voted for this 65-35. Our biggest county, I mean, that's a huge, huge mandate for this thing. So we want to make sure people are saving money, and that is going to, I think, require a taxpayer bill of rights where we're not allowing to just go and put fees or do play games. That's why we did the business reduction so they can only raise $5 instead of $10 like they can do now. They said it would be a tax shift. It's not going to be a tax shift. It's going to be a reduction. And then I'll also work with the legislature to provide a pool of funding that we can issue grants to local governments for core needs. And these local, you know, it's like some of the rural, they voted for it overwhelmingly. People said, oh, rural won't vote it. Look at some of the things in rural what they did. Overwhelmingly they did. But people say the rural tax base isn't as strong. It's not. But. It's budget dust to help them with their sheriff's departments. I mean, you're talking about tens of millions of dollars in grants would be able to handle the, quote, shortfall. So we'll be able to do that. There will be a transition period, so we'll work with them on that. And I think people are going to be very excited to get some much-needed relief.