Bradford County: No Local Business Tax to Exempt

The Bradford County Code carries no local business tax - its taxation chapter holds the sales surtax, gas tax, senior homestead exemption, fire rescue surtax, tourist development tax and the elderly-parent homestead reduction - and the Tax Collector publishes no business tax service, so a veteran opening a business in unincorporated Bradford County owes the county none. A city that levies one applies section 205.055.

Also called: business tax receipt, local business tax, occupational license, Tax Collector, Teresa Phillips, 205.055, chapter 74, Starke, Lawtey, Brooker, Hampton, Camp Blanding.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Bradford County, FLCounty

Section 205.055 exempts an honorably discharged veteran, a spouse or unremarried surviving spouse, and a PCS military spouse from a local business tax; see the Florida entry. In Bradford County there is no county tax to exempt. The Code. Chapter 74 of the Bradford County Code, "Taxation", carries the discretionary sales surtax, the six-cent local option gas tax, the senior homestead exemption, the emergency fire rescue surtax, the tourist development tax and the reduction for living quarters of parents or grandparents. No chapter levies a local business tax. The Tax Collector. The Bradford County Tax Collector, Teresa G. Phillips, 945 North Temple Avenue, Suite B, Starke, handles property taxes, tags and titles, driver licences and concealed weapon licence applications; its pages list no business tax receipt. Inside the cities. Starke, Lawtey, Brooker and Hampton may levy their own business tax under chapter 205; where one does, section 205.055 exempts the same people there, claimed with that city.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Bradford County: No Local Business Tax to Exempt
Gate	Rule
No county business tax; statute applies where a city levies one	Bradford County levies no local business tax, so no veteran exemption is needed at the county level. Any city tax follows section 205.055: honorable discharge, or a listed spouse.

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Last updated 2026-10-17.

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