Jacksonville
Duval County Tax Collector, Business Tax Division
In short
Duval County Tax Collector, Business Tax Division issues 3 permits we publish for Jacksonville, last verified 2026-09-05. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Business Tax Receipt — Professions & Retail Store | Duval County Tax Collector, Business Tax Division | $30 a year — $30 flat under either the professions classification or the retail-store classification, whichever applies | annual — every receipt expires 30 September, per Florida Statutes chapter 205 | 2026-09-05 |
| Local Business Tax Receipt — Contracting | Duval County Tax Collector, Business Tax Division | Banded by the maximum number of persons employed or to be employed during the license year (all principals count as employees): 1–10 employees $11.25; 11–20 $22.50; 21–30 $33.75; 31–40 $45.00; 41–50 $56.25; 51–100 $187.50; 101–150 $281.25; 151–200 $375.00; 201 or more $468.75. | annual — every receipt expires 30 September, per Florida Statutes chapter 205 | 2026-09-05 |
| Local Business Tax Receipt — Cafes, Restaurants and Other Eating Establishments | Duval County Tax Collector, Business Tax Division | $18.75–$75 a year, banded by seating — $18.75 for 30 seats or fewer, $37.50 for 31 to 74, $56.25 for 75 to 149, $75.00 for 150 or more; a drive-in eating establishment pays a further $60 on top of whichever seating tier applies | annual — every receipt expires 30 September, per Florida Statutes chapter 205 | 2026-09-05 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Local Business Tax Receipt — Professions & Retail Store
Confirmed directly against the ordinance text. Section 770.322 taxes 'every person engaged in the practice of a profession who offers his service... to the public for a consideration' at $30 a year, whether or not that profession is otherwise regulated by law; section 770.324 taxes each retail store location at the same $30 a year. Retail store explicitly excludes restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, hotels and liquor stores, which are taxed separately below. A salon, fitness studio, child care provider or auto repair shop is assumed to fall under the general professions classification here, since chapter 770 has no dedicated classification section for any of them — if Duval County has in fact classified one of these trades under its own separate section elsewhere in chapter 770's roughly thirty sections, a different figure would apply instead. A $6 fee applies to transfer the receipt between locations or owners, and a receipt not renewed by 30 September draws a 10% delinquency penalty for October plus a further 5% each subsequent month, up to 25%.
Local Business Tax Receipt — Contracting
Per the text of section 770.307, this tax covers anyone who contracts, subcontracts, or otherwise engages in the construction, alteration, repair, dismantling or demolition of buildings, roads, bridges, sewers or utility lines. This is layered alongside, not a substitute for, the CTQB Certificate of Competency and the Florida CILB state license already recorded elsewhere.
Local Business Tax Receipt — Cafes, Restaurants and Other Eating Establishments
Confirmed directly against the ordinance text. This section governs any restaurant, cafe, snack bar, take-out service, dining room or other public eating place, priced by how many people it can seat or accommodate at once — not the flat $30 that applies to a retail store or profession. A drive-in restaurant, where customers are served while seated in their cars, pays this schedule's tax plus an additional flat $60, not instead of it. Chapter 770 Part 3's complete list of business-tax classification sections (770.301 through 770.333, covering everything from advertising-space renters to water companies) was checked in full and names no separate mobile-vendor, food-truck, itinerant-vendor or peddler classification anywhere in it — this section's own language is built entirely around fixed seating, which does not describe a mobile unit, so no figure is asserted for the food-truck industry.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Jacksonville
- Phone
- (904) 255-5700
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- City of Jacksonville / Duval County Code of Ordinances chapter 770, part 3, sections 770.306 (cafes, restaurants and other eating establishments), 770.307 (contracting), 770.322 (professions, businesses, occupations) and 770.324 (retail store) — verbatim ordinance text, supplied directly by the requester after Municode returned 403 to every automated attemptMunicode (Jacksonville, Florida Code of Ordinances) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Duval County Tax Collector — Local Business Tax Receipt page (renewal term, transfer fee, delinquency penalties); content supplied directly by the requester after this page returned a connection refusal to every automated attemptDuval County Tax Collector · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
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