{"id":269003,"date":"2024-12-04T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-court-grants-final-approval-to-hillsborough-county-sales-surtax-settlement-visit-www-fltaxrefund-com-before-december-31\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:10:01","slug":"el-tribunal-otorga-la-aprobacion-final-a-la-liquidacion-del-impuesto-sobre-las-ventas-del-condado-de-hillsborough-visite-www-fltaxrefund-com-antes-del-31-de-diciembre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-tribunal-otorga-la-aprobacion-final-a-la-liquidacion-del-impuesto-sobre-las-ventas-del-condado-de-hillsborough-visite-www-fltaxrefund-com-antes-del-31-de-diciembre\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Final Approval to Hillsborough County Sales Surtax Settlement: Visit www.FLTaxRefund.com Before December 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla.<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 4, 2024<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/&#8211; The following is being released by the\u00a0Hillsborough County Surtax Settlement Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>On <b><span class=\"xn-chron\">November 18, 2024<\/span><\/b>, Judge <span class=\"xn-person\">John C. Cooper<\/span> of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit in and for <span class=\"xn-location\">Leon County, Florida<\/span>, entered a Final Order\u00a0approving a Settlement in the class action lawsuit known as <i>Emerson v. Florida Department of Revenue<\/i>, No. 2021-CA-487. The Settlement resolves claims against\u00a0Hillsborough County, the Florida Department of Revenue, and the Florida Legislature\u00a0related to an unconstitutional 1% sales surtax imposed in <span class=\"xn-location\">Hillsborough County<\/span> between <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 1, 2019<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 15, 2021<\/span>. The Final Order approving the Settlement is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4317515-1&amp;h=2773493765&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fltaxrefund.com%2F&amp;a=www.FLTaxRefund.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.FLTaxRefund.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The surtax applied to most transactions subject to the state sales and use tax, such as retail purchases, payment for services, event tickets, hotel stays, service warranties, parking and storage space, docking fees, and commercial rent payments. The Settlement creates a refund process for eligible Class Members, as well as funds transportation projects and a temporary sales surtax holiday in <span class=\"xn-location\">Hillsborough County<\/span>. More information about the lawsuit and Settlement can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4317515-1&amp;h=2773493765&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fltaxrefund.com%2F&amp;a=www.FLTaxRefund.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.FLTaxRefund.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Settlement Administrator has already begun accepting claims for Settlement benefits, and <b>the deadline to submit claims is <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 31, 2024<\/span>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Any person or business who paid the surtax can submit a claim seeking a refund.<\/b>\u00a0Class Members have two options: (1) provide receipts or other proof of taxable expenditures to receive a refund equal to the amount of their surtax payments; or (2) if they lived in\u00a0Hillsborough County\u00a0anytime\u00a0between <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 1, 2019<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 15, 2021<\/span>, and either cannot or do not want to provide proof of taxable purchases, claim a standard award of up to\u00a0$100, depending on the length of residency during that time.\u00a0<b>Go to <\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4317515-1&amp;h=2773493765&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fltaxrefund.com%2F&amp;a=www.FLTaxRefund.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.FLTaxRefund.com<\/a><\/b><b> to submit your claim by <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 31, 2024<\/span>. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>More information about the Settlement is available at the website, <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4317515-1&amp;h=2773493765&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fltaxrefund.com%2F&amp;a=www.FLTaxRefund.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.FLTaxRefund.com<\/a>\u00a0or by calling 1-888-715-9373.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Hillsborough County Surtax Settlement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla.<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 4, 2024<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/&#8211; The following is being released by the\u00a0Hillsborough County Surtax Settlement Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>On <b><span class=\"xn-chron\">November 18, 2024<\/span><\/b>, Judge <span class=\"xn-person\">John C. Cooper<\/span> of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit in and for <span class=\"xn-location\">Leon County, Florida<\/span>, entered a Final Order\u00a0approving a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269003"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269021,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269003\/revisions\/269021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}