“Gov. Ron DeSantis “signed a $1 billion tax increase on the people of our state, on our consumers, yet gave a $500 million tax break to our corporations.”
What PolitiFact found
DeSantis signed an online sales tax bill that requires consumers to pay the tax even if the seller doesn’t have a store in Florida. But they were supposed to already pay it, and other states passed similar bills.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nikki Fried (Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services) made this claim around 9 June 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 June 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Nikki Fried has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.