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The Florida Department of Revenue Quick Facts:

• Administers three main programs: Child Support Program; General Tax Administration; and Property Tax Oversight.

• Works on behalf of more than 1.2 million children to establish and collect child support.

• Distributes more than $1.6 billion a year in child support payments to families.

• Helps establish paternity for more than 95,000 children a year, providing them with a legal father.

• Collects more than $40 billion a year in taxes and fees annually.

• Processes more than 9 million tax filings annually.

• Distributes nearly $3 billion dollars in discretionary sales surtax collections each year to local jurisdictions, including counties, cities, and school districts.

• Processes more than $5 billion in receipts for other state agencies annually.

• Reviews the property tax roll for each of Florida's 67 counties every year.

• Provides education, assistance and certification to 1,408 local government entities every year.

• Oversees the local appraisal and assessment of taxes on more than 11 million parcels of property with a total value of over $2.7 trillion dollars

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