Taxable Sales
Last Updated: November 12th, 2025
Summary
- Seasonally-adjusted real taxable sales for Southwest Florida totaled $2.942 billion in September 2025, a decline of 1.6 percent from September 2024 and virtually unchanged from the August 2025 measure.
- Lee County’s seasonally-adjusted real taxable sales were $1.590 billion in September 2025, down 1.7 percent from September 2024 but 0.9 percent over the prior month.
- Collier County seasonally-adjusted real taxable sales were $991.8 million in September 2025, 4.1 percent below September 2024 but a 0.1 percent increase from August 2025.
- Seasonally-adjusted real taxable sales in Charlotte County totaled $322.8 million in September 2025, down 1.3 percent compared to September 2024 and 2.3 percent below August 2025.
- Seasonally-adjusted real taxable sales in Hendry County totaled $44.8 million in September 2025, a 6.5 percent improvement from September 2024 but 0.6 percent down from the August 2025 total.
- Glades County seasonally-adjusted real taxable sales amounted to $4.8 million in September 2025, a 4.9 percent increase from previous year and 5.8 percent above the previous month.
About the Data
Taxable sales represent transactions that are subject to the state sales tax. Florida currently has a state sales tax of 6%. In addition to the state sales tax, each county is afforded the ability to enact a local option sales tax. See the Regional Economic Research Institute resources page for more information on the sales tax rate for each county.
Taxable sales data is provided by the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) and is updated on a monthly basis. Because sales data collected by the DOR is based on the latest month of merchant collections, the RERI adjusts the data to the month of transaction by lagging the data one month. Furthermore, all sales data were adjusted from nominal to real values using the U.S. Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers (CPI-U), with all dollar values reported in January 2022 dollars. Lastly, all data is seasonally-adjusted by the Regional Economic Research Institute using the X13-ARIMA-SEATS seasonal adjustment program, software that is produced, distributed and maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.
