CITY OF MIAMI PARKING SURCHARGE REMITTANCE REPORT
City Ordinance 12563
GENERAL FILING INSTRUCTIONS
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1. The City imposes a tax upon each parking transaction by a patron of a nonresidential parking place.
2. The tax is imposed at the rate stated in the City of Miami Ordinance 12563.
3. No operator shall begin or continue to conduct the operation of a nonresidential parking place without registering with the City's
Finance Department and obtaining a business tax receipt and a certificate of use for each facility.
4. Remittance of the parking surcharge to the City and acceptance of the parking surcharge by the City does not waive the operators'
and/or owners' requirements to maintain compliance with the City's zoning and code enforcement requirements.
5. Each operator shall maintain complete and accurate records of all transactions, of the total amount of consideration received from
all transactions, and the amount of tax collected on the basis of such consideration in accordance with record retention regulations
required by the Florida Sales Tax Regulations.
6. Operators shall collect the surcharge imposed by the ordinance and shall be liable to the City of Miami as agent thereof for
payment to the City Finance Department.
7. Each operator, on forms prescribed by the City Manager, shall file by the twentieth of each month, a return for the preceding
month disclosing information as required.
8. Gross Revenues shall mean any an all revenue exchange or otherwise, to be determined according to generally accepted
accounting principles, derived directly or indirectly from or in connection with parking operation of the parking facility,
excluding Florida State sales tax, but including the entire amount compensation in whatever form.
THIS RETURN MUST BE FILED WITH THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF MIAMI, ON/OR BEFORE THE DATE INDICATED
WITH REMITTANCE IN FULL FOR THE AMOUNT OF SURCHARGE TO AVOID IMPOSITION OF PENALTIES AND INTEREST.
FAILURE TO FILE IN A COMPLETE AND TIMELY FASHION MAY RESULT IN LEGAL ACTION BY THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE.
A NON-SUFFICIENT FUNDS FEE WILL BE ASSESSED FOR ANY CHECK RETURNED FROM BANK FOR ANY REASON.