Visitor or Travel Taxes?

[cityimrov]

I was doing some vacation research and looked at Phoenix, Arizona as a possible location.  Arizona is known as a low tax conservative state, right?  Not really.  Apparently there's around a 38% rental car tax that Phoenix AZ charges to all visitors to the state that dozens upon dozens of travel articles are complaining about.  Apparently 3% or so of the tax is being used to pay for a new stadium and the state is considering raising the travel taxes to pay for more stuff. 

Which comes to my question, what do we in the State of Florida charge our visitors?  I know what our property &  sales taxes cost us as a local resident but I'm curious how much do visitors pay to visit our state?  The only thing I remember is that our port charges $15/night for cruise ship parking while Miami charges $20/night.  This is in addition to local port fees added to the ticket prices.  How does our hotel room, car, airport, etc tax compare to other states?  Anyone here know? 

[tufsu1]

bed taxes and rental car taxes average around 12% in FL

[Demosthenes]

How about a sprawl tax for all of the high dollar earners who work in Duval, but live in Clay, St Johns, and Nassau.

[danem]

How about a sprawl tax for all of the high dollar earners who work in Duval, but live in Clay, St Johns, and Nassau.

Don't they get to pay more in gas tax? 

[tufsu1]

How about a sprawl tax for all of the high dollar earners who work in Duval, but live in Clay, St Johns, and Nassau.

lots of cities have employment/payroll taxes...not sure what they do now, but Philly used to have a 3 pronged approach

1. set % tax for those living and working in Philly
2. slightly lower for those living outside Philly but working inside
3. slightly higher for those living in Philly but working outside

It makes sense that someone who only works in the city but doesn't live there would incur less expenses....but the reverse logic is messed up...basically it punishes people (not companies) for taking jobs outside the city.

Nevertheless, we won't have that here...the State Constituion prohibits a payroll tax.

[cityimrov]

bed taxes and rental car taxes average around 12% in FL

Is that tax in addition to sales tax?

[tufsu1]

for rental cars in Duval, the total taxes/fees add about 15% to the per day charge.