With the Legislature anticipating a budget surplus of some $300 million, conservative lawmakers are already pushing tax cuts months before the March session.
Sen. Dorothy Hukill, a Port Orange Republican, is targeting corporations, cable and cell phone customers and commercial renters for tax relief.
One bill would give some 2,000 smaller businesses a break from the state’s corporate income tax. It would do so by increasing an exemption for corporate income from $50,000 to $75,000. Senate analysts put the price tag at nearly $22 million.
Gov. Rick Scott took stabs at the same corporate tax cut in 2013 and last year.
Another of Hukill’s bills would reduce the tax customers pay for cable and cell phone services.
And a third proposal would cut the 6 percent tax on commercial leases to 5 percent.
The tax cuts failed last year as legislative leaders did some belt tightening, but they’re back on the table after Republicans made gains in both chambers.