Emailed disputes and appeals will NOT be accepted. Once registered you can then submit for a dispute or appeal. If you do not have a registered account with the Parking Division, please look under "New Customer" and select "Create a new account". On the request page, select the Appeal Citation link. You may request a review or hearing for your citation. Upon such request, a summons for court appearance will be issued to confirm the time and date of the court hearing. All requests must be made within seven (7) calendar days of the date of the infraction. So the big question now is going to be what happens to that money? From the information that I gathered the answer is we don’t know right now and we have to find that out," said City of Tampa Councilman Luis Viera.Any person who wishes to contest the validity of a parking citation may request a court hearing by contacting the City of Tampa Parking Division. "They've collected I believe somewhere between $400-500 million of our tax money. Until the Florida Supreme Court issues a mandate, what will happen regarding those monies remains unclear." The appeal will formally conclude when the Florida Supreme Court issues a mandate.Īll the transportation surtax monies the Department previously collected on behalf of Hillsborough County have been distributed to Hillsborough County. "Because a motion for rehearing could be made within 15 days, the appeal is not formally concluded. The Florida Department of Revenue sent ABC Action News a statement that reads: The court opinion released on Thursday didn't discuss where the money collected through the tax would go. Decades and decades old and this money can make our roads safer, but no one can touch the funds," one person wrote to our tip line. ".The roads and sidewalks in Tampa are disgusting. Last week we reported on frustrated Hillsborough County residents who wanted to know when the money collected through the tax would be used to fix roads. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority provided this statement on the ruling.Ĭarson Chambers, Director of Communications HART You can read about all of those proposed projects by clicking here. The money would have funded new roads, fixing sidewalks and mass transit. Thursday's ruling did not address what can or will happen to the funds already collected. Upwards of half a billion dollars have been collected from the one-cent sales tax since January 2019. What about the money that's been collected? Appeals were filed shortly after, which is why it headed to the Florida Supreme Court. However, a Hillsborough County judge upheld the tax in June 2019. White claimed the surtax is legally deficient. Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White filed a lawsuit against the referendum. Hillsborough County, and Tampa as an extension, saw lower numbers of citations. It is a one-cent sales tax that was passed in November 2018 and started being collected in 2019. One big revenue source in Florida is the money paid for traffic citations, such as running red lights or speeding. Because it cannot reasonably be said that the voters would have approved the tax without the accompanying spending plan, we must strike the charter amendment in its entirety," wrote Chief Justice Charles Canady.Īll for Transportation is the common term for the voter-approved sales tax referendum funding transportation. But the spending directives are unconstitutional in that they conflict with a state law that gives the county commission the authority to allocate such funds. Through that charter amendment, the voters approved both a -2- transportation surtax and elaborate directives for allocating the tax proceeds. "In these consolidated cases we consider the constitutional validity of an amendment to the Hillsborough County Charter that was adopted in an initiative election. The justices ruled 4 to 1 that the restrictions on how the revenue collected from the tax could be spent are unconstitutional. In a ruling posted on Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court has struck down Hillsborough County’s one-cent transportation sales tax.
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