Florida governor Ron DeSantis wants to end property taxes.
Newsweek reported last week on DeSantis’s work to end property taxes.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said that he is working on a “concrete proposal” to drastically cut or even eliminate property taxes in the state, an initiative that he has pledged to put before voters next year.
“I think that property taxes have pinched a lot of people, and I think we got to do something about it,” DeSantis said during a news conference in Tampa. “All I will say to that is, stay tuned. I’m already working with folks, we are crunching numbers, we’re doing all these different things. But you are going to have an opportunity to get this done in November 2026,” he added.
Why Does Florida Want to End Property Taxes?
Florida is just one of several Republican-led states trying to significantly cut or even abolish the property tax, including Illinois, Kansas, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
This nationwide movement is “largely a response to the run-up in house prices, particularly in the suburbs and exurbs, that followed the pandemic,” David Schleicher, Walter E. Meyer professor of property and urban law at Yale Law School, told Newsweek.
Peter St. Onge shared the following on the DeSantis proposal:
It would save households $3,400 per year, raise house prices $50,000 to $100,000.
And starve local governments of their activist NGO money.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis wants to end property taxes.
It would save households $3,400 per year, raise house prices $50,000 to $100,000.
And starve local governments of their activist NGO money. pic.twitter.com/xJx3SdsY4C
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) September 1, 2025