Taxation and Budget Reform Commission Recommendations 2008 series

A series of 16 fact sheets by Rodney L. Clouser, inform the public on issues related to statutory and constitutional proposals adopted by the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission (TBRC). Fact sheets FE733 through FE741 address statutory changes and fact sheets FE742 through FE748 address constitutional amendments. Published by the UF Department of Food and Resource Economics, August 2008.

Statutory Recommendations

  • FE733 Florida Tax Reform: Taxation and Budget Reform
    Commission (TBRC)
  • FE735 Ballot Summary Length
  • FE738 Expansion of Faith- and Character-Based Initiatives in Florida’s Correction System
  • FE736 Just Value Assessment of Real and Tangible Personal Property and Burden of Proof
  • FE741 Requiring Certain Constitutional Officers, Boards, and Other Taxing Authorities to Submit Line Item, Zero-Based Budgets to County Commissions
  • FE734 Residential Property Assessment for Storm Hardening Improvement and Installation of Renewable Energy Source Devices
  • FE739 Sales and Use Tax Exemption Review Committee
  • FE737 Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement
  • FE740 Transportation Funding

Constitutional Amendments

  • FE742 Constitutional Amendment 3: Changes and Improvements Not Affecting the Assessed Value of Residential Real Property
  • FE743 Constitutional Amendment 4: Property Tax Exemption of Perpetually Conserved Land; Classification and Assessment of Land Used for Conservation
  • FE744 Constitutional Amendment 5: Eliminating State Required School Property Tax and Replacing with Equivalent State Revenues to Fund Education
  • FE745 Constitutional Amendment 6: Assessment of Working Waterfront Property Based upon Current Use
  • FE746 Constitutional Amendment 7: Religious Freedom
  • FE747 Constitutional Amendment 8: Local Option Community College Funding
  • FE748 Constitutional Amendment 9: Requiring 65 Percent of School Funding for Classroom Instruction; State’s Duty for Children’s Education