Each checklist names the form or agency, who files and when. None replaces your CPA or attorney, but they help you ask better questions.
Florida has no state income tax on individuals, so the list centers on sales tax, payroll tax, county property tax and the state's business records.
- Closing Your Florida Sales Tax Account After a Business Sale
The steps after you sell a Florida business: telling the Department of Revenue, filing a final sales tax return, and handling local business tax receipts.
- Florida Documentary Stamp Tax on a Seller Financed Note
When you finance part of a Florida business sale, the note can carry a state documentary stamp tax. How it is figured, who usually pays and what to ask first.
- Florida Reemployment Tax Transfer When a Buyer Takes Over
How Florida reemployment tax accounts and experience ratings move when someone buys your business, which forms apply and what sellers should do after closing.
- Florida Sales Tax Successor Liability When You Sell a Business
Why a Florida buyer can hold back part of your price for unpaid sales tax, how a Department of Revenue receipt or certificate releases it, and how to plan.
- Florida Tangible Personal Property Return in the Year You Sell
How Florida's yearly tangible personal property return works when you sell a business: the April 1 deadline, form DR-405, extensions and appraisers.
- Sunbiz Dissolution After an Asset Sale of a Florida Business
What to do with your Florida corporation or LLC after you sell its assets: name change, annual reports, dissolution on Sunbiz, tax clearance and when to wait.