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What are the Florida reemployment tax due dates

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What is Florida reemployment tax?

Florida reemployment tax (formerly called unemployment tax) is a state tax on employers. It funds unemployment benefits for workers who lose their jobs. If your Florida LLC has employees, you generally owe this tax and must file a return called the RT-6, according to the Florida Department of Revenue.

The quarterly due dates

RT-6 returns are due four times a year, one per quarter, for any business with employees:

• April 30 — first quarter
• July 31 — second quarter
• October 31 — third quarter
• January 31 — fourth quarter

Who has to file

The rule from the state is simple on paper: if you have employees, you file RT-6 every quarter. The material we have does not say whether an owner with no employees, or an LLC taxed as a sole proprietor with no payroll, is exempt. Check with a Florida CPA or the Department of Revenue if that is your situation.

Employee count also matters for a separate obligation: Florida requires workers' compensation coverage at four or more employees for non-construction businesses, and at one or more employees for construction businesses, according to the Florida CFO's Division of Workers' Compensation. That is a different filing from RT-6, but it depends on the same headcount.

Where to file

Reemployment tax returns are filed with the Florida Department of Revenue, not with Sunbiz or the IRS. The current forms and filing portal are linked from their reemployment tax page. Confirm the portal and any penalty amounts there — the material used for this page does not include a specific late fee for RT-6.

What this page does not tell you

• We do not know your industry, your payroll size, or whether you have filed before.
• We do not know if a penalty or interest applies to a late RT-6 — confirm that with the Department of Revenue.
• This is not a full compliance calendar. Florida LLCs also have a separate Sunbiz annual report deadline (May 1, with a $400 late fee) and, if you sell taxable goods or services, sales tax deadlines around the 20th of the month — different taxes, different agencies.

What to do next

This page gives you the general rule. Compliance Calendar FL is a free tool that reads your own formation date, county and industry — and any document you give it — and returns your actual next deadlines, dated and linked to the office that set them. Nothing you enter is stored.

Compliance Calendar FL is not legal or tax advice and can be wrong. Confirm each deadline at the linked office, and ask a Florida CPA about anything that depends on your numbers.

Compliance Calendar FL computes deadlines from public rules and the answers you give; rules change and your situation may differ. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice. Confirm every date with the office that sets it (sunbiz.org, floridarevenue.com, your county tax collector) or a Florida CPA. Nothing you enter is stored.