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Palm Beach County Property Appraiser

Dear Taxpayer: Beach County and staffed by qualified professionals. They
Happy Spring! administer the homestead exemption, additional property
My office continues to tax exemptions, mailing address and ownership changes,
work on the 2024 tax roll portability applications and more.
and make preparations for 2023 Customer Service By The Numbers
the release of the estimated • Phone calls: 89,053, down 11 percent from 2022
2024 taxable property • Counter visits: 28,256, nearly flat from 2022
values to the Palm Beach • E-files: 15,835, down 14 percent from 2022
County taxing authorities • Total new homestead exemptions: 24,649, down 21
at the end of May. percent from 2022
These preliminary • Portability applications: 6,865, nearly flat from 2022
estimates assist the county,
municipalities and other taxing authorities in projecting Short-Term Rental Of A
their budgets and tax rates and also provide a benchmark as
to what revenue they can expect to receive from property Homesteaded Property
taxes in the coming year.
After the taxing authorities have determined their A provision in state law allows you to rent your
budgets and proposed tax rates based on the preliminary home for a short time without affecting your homestead
estimates, my office will mail the notice of proposed taxes exemption.
to every property owner in August. The notice will detail Florida law allows the following:
the assessed value of your property, your proposed tax • Rental for 30 days or less per calendar year.
rates and an estimate of your tax bill. Stay tuned. • Rental for more than 30 days and less than six months
Also, as snowbird season comes to a close, we’ve in one year. If you rent again the following year for more
included important information on short-term rentals of than 30 days, you will lose your homestead exemption
a homesteaded property for those property owners who for that tax year.
benefit from the homestead exemption and are considering • Rental on any day except Jan. 1. If your home is
renting all or a portion of their homesteaded property. rented on Jan. 1, you will lose the homestead exemption
I hope you find this information beneficial and for that year.
interesting. Rental for more than six months constitutes
Respectfully, abandonment of a homestead exemption. Property owners
Dorothy Jacks, CFA, FIAAO, AAS, are required to notify the property appraiser’s office when
Palm Beach County Property Appraiser their property no longer qualifies for exemption. Failure to
do so could result in a homestead tax lien with substantial
Palm Beach County Property penalty and interest.
This statute does not apply to a member of the Armed
Appraiser’s Office Service Forces of the United States.
Be aware of the law before deciding to rent your
Centers property. For more information, visit pbcpao.gov.org or
contact Exemption Services at (561) 355-2866.
While a vast array of services and information are Source: Florida Statute 196.061, Florida Statute
available online 24/7 at pbcpao.gov, my office maintains 196.011 (9) (a)
five service centers conveniently located throughout Palm

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