Quick Facts about Revenue

The Florida Department of Revenue:

• Works on behalf of more than a million children to establish and collect child support.
• Collects and distributes more than $1.4 billion a year in child support payments.
• Helps establish paternity for over 90,000 children a year, providing them with a legal father.
• Collects over $30 billion a year in taxes and fees.
• Processes over $4 billion in receipts for other state agencies annually.
• Processes more than 9 million tax filings annually.
• Distributes over a billion dollars in discretionary sales surtax collections each year to 455 local jurisdictions, including counties, cities, and school districts.
• Oversees the local appraisal and assessment of taxes on more than 11 million parcels of property with a total value of over 2 trillion dollars.
• Reviews the property tax roll for each of Florida’s 67 counties every year.
• Provides education, assistance and certification to 1,014 local government entities every year.
• Responds daily through our toll-free help lines to approximately 5,000 child support customers and 3,000 taxpayers.