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DeSantis Proposes $1,000 Property Tax Rebate For Florida Homeowners
April 1, 2025
Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled a plan Monday to provide direct property tax relief to Florida homeowners, proposing a rebate averaging $1,000 for each homesteaded property in the state. He said the rebates, which would be issued in December 2025, are aimed at offsetting state-mandated school property taxes while ensuring full funding for local school districts.
If approved by the Legislature, the proposal would benefit more than 5.1 million homeowners across Florida. The initiative aligns with DeSantis’ broader goal of ultimately eliminating property taxes through a future constitutional amendment.
“Property taxes effectively require homeowners to pay rent to the government,” said DeSantis. “Constitutional protections for Florida homeowners require approval of the voters in 2026. In the meantime, Floridians need relief. I am today proposing a plan that will result in—on average—$1,000 rebate checks for each household as a discount on their property taxes. If the Legislature acts on this plan now, we can get this done this year. Let’s get this done for the people of Florida this session.”
The governor called on the Florida Legislature to grant the necessary authority to issue the rebates immediately, leveraging the state’s strong revenue position to benefit full-time residents.
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23 Responses to “DeSantis Proposes $1,000 Property Tax Rebate For Florida Homeowners”
This is wonderful I helped an elderly woman who was struggling to pay her insurance since it had gone up this will help so many Floridians
Good Start. Love Desantis! Now for home insurance reform. Eliminate mortgages requirement for any insurance beyond principle owed. Require opt in for automatic increases in insured amount. Require an affordable catastrophic loss insurance option. Eliminate ability for insurance companies to tell you what you must fix. Cap the max payouts for loss to reduce this craziness. Allow those who can fix and mitigate further damage to do so immediately. Require policy payouts not nitpicky itemization of each object lost for contents..or allow policies with no contents covered with a meaningful reduction if contents or other coverages or declined. I would have gone catastrophic loss only if it weren’t just a few hundred less in premium only. Or replace insurance with required savings plan..4k a year is 20k over 5 years..and 40k over 10 yrs that’s sufficient for much except catastrophic loss, if you do it yourself.
I’m happy for anything, your insurance is what you pay for your coverage. My tax on my “paid for” home are over 10k.this sounds like a good start.
After working for years to finally pay off the bankers, you still don’t own your home and property – Florida does, andnyou still pay an annual “rent” until you die and it starts all over for the next poor slob. All the pre-election promises to do away with property taxes for seniors seem to have evaporated, too!
I used to like him and voted for him twice. Just trying to stay relevant. We have a major insurance crisis on home and auto coverage one of the highest in the nation. Condo owners losing their properties due to his regulations with no relief in sight. Once again politicians keeping the status quo and regular person with limited value getting the short end of the stick.
CHDR, , if you own two houses, themselves rich people problems. You can afford it.
I am a retired veteran and a widow. Please do what you can fir us. My homeowners insurance is almost 6500, I have to have almost 15k a year just to live here
This rebate and potential property tax elimination should apply exclusively to homesteaders—those living in their primary residence. If you’re affluent enough to own multiple properties, you can afford the taxes on non-primary residences, whether they’re luxury homes or rentals. The benefit should support homeowners residing in their property, not those profiting from additional real estate. Business property should also be excluded.
I strongly suggest shopping around for insurance. Mine double from last year and when I shopped around, found a insurer cheaper than the renewal quote, with better coverage. In respect of the property taxes, a great relief will be not to have to pay property taxes as this is an added pressure to owning a home.
What about people that live in Mobile home parks where the owners have passed on the property tax to the residents in the park? Will we also get a rebate?
Needs more specifics on applicable income exemptions and will this exclude those who already benefit from existing additional homestead exemptions which virtually negate a significant amount of their property taxes.
We just paid 1000 for the paid for house (18yrs) and 2000 for a 1br studio on 7fl on daytona beach whats wrong with this picture
Anything helps but doesnt make a dent when my county pays 5k in taxes and still trying to recover from hurricane damage costs
This rewards the owners of expensive homes (rich people) way more than people whose homes aren’t as costly. Wealthy people don’t need even MORE money!
Put a cap on the value of the homesteaded property eligible for this rebate, and then change the formula to give larger rebates to the owners of less expensive homes.
For those complaining about insurance: change companies! I would just auto renew my old policy. This year, I switched agents. My policy went from almost $4k to $1600 (that includes a $1,000 surcharge because of an older house). You do not do yourself any favors by being a “loyal customer”. My new insurance company is one of the largest companies in Florida and has been around for years, just fyi, so its not a fly by night company.
Those complaining about the higher home insurance cost compared to years past, need to look at how much insurance they are buying at their annual renewal.
The “value” as alleged by the insurance company on my home has increased by nearly $200,000 in the past 5-years. If you have “replacement value” for rebuilding after an incident of for personal property coverage, you might need to consider how much building materials have increased the past 5-years or what it cost to replace appliances, furniture, electronics etc etc etc….
All of the higher cost associated with purchasing building material or replacing your personal property is just one of the reason your insurance cost have increase.
As far as a property tax rebate, anything helps. But, IMHO, this isnt the right avenue to offer homeowners relief. The best way is to make huge modifications as to the taxable limits of home values and or reduce the authorized millage rates set by current statute. The budgets of our local taxing authorities have exploded these past few years. They can never get enough of your hard earned money. They wont make a sincere effort to reduce millage rates and therefore its time for the Legislature to tie the hands of local taxing authorities.
Yes I love to have home owners insurance go down went from like 1500 up to 4,200 and taxes is little over 3,000 and do not live in a flood zone or by any water fix insurance company to they are the biggest scam in the world
What about the homeowners that are NOT homesteaded and pay more because they own more then one home?
You can’t just pick one group of tax payers and not do something for the majority of property owners that have property that isn’t homesteaded.????
@Give me a break. spot-on!!
Not saying different situations don’t occur, but a property tax increase of over $1000 in a single year seems unlikely.
We take the standard homestead deduction only.
We built an 1900 square foot home in 2010. That first year property tax was ~$500 because the house had not yet been built. In 2011, after the house was included, our property tax went to ~$1600. In 2024, our property tax was ~$1650.
A $50 increase over 15 years is virtually nothing.
Fix homeowner’s insurance–that’s jumped from $1200 to $4500 annually in a non-flood, central Escambia location in the same time frame.
Mine didn’t.
I’d rather it be if your homes paid for, you don’t pay any land nor home taxes period nomore. I’d be a golden for that
TAXES INCREASED MORE THAN THAT
Would rather have Florida’s Home Owners Insurance rates lowered. If you can fix that issue…. you’re a shoe in for POTUS