Collier County TRIM notice 2026: millage 3.0107, levy up $21M

Collier County has set the property tax rates that will print on this month's TRIM notices at exactly last year's numbers, and because taxable value rose 3.5 percent that flat rate still raises 21 million dollars more

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The Editorial Team · August 8, 2026

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What it changes

A flat millage rate is not a flat tax bill, and this document is where the difference becomes visible. Collier's board held the countywide General Fund rate at 3.0107 per 1,000 dollars of taxable value, the same rate it levied last year, but the taxable value it applies to rose 3.50 percent to 170.3 billion dollars. The result, printed in the county's own table, is 512.7 million dollars from the General Fund against 495.3 million last year, and 640.9 million dollars across all county taxing districts against 619.8 million. That is 21.1 million dollars more from the same rate. Florida's Truth in Millage law exists to make exactly this legible, and it does so through the rolled back rate, which is the rate that would raise the same money from the same properties as the year before. For the General Fund that rate is 2.9814. Holding at 3.0107 is 0.98 percent above it, and under the statute a rate above the rolled back rate is a tax increase and has to be advertised as one, whatever the rate did or did not do. So the honest summary for a Collier owner is that the county has proposed a small increase measured the way the law measures it, and a larger increase measured in dollars, and the gap between those two descriptions is entirely the growth in assessed value. What arrives in the post in August is the Notice of Proposed Property Taxes, and the rates on it are these. Two things follow for anyone reading one. First, the county is only part of the notice. The countywide rate of 3.2449 covers the General Fund, Water Pollution Control and Conservation Collier, and an owner outside a city adds the Unincorporated Area General Fund at 0.6844, plus whichever of the two dozen dependent districts and taxing units cover the parcel. The school board, the independent districts and, for a city resident, the municipality are separate lines with separate rates that this budget does not set. Second, the rates on the notice are ceilings rather than conclusions. The transmittal memorandum states that these rates may not be raised without extraordinary public notice and advertising, and that the board keeps the option of holding or lowering them through the rest of the process. The two hearings where that happens are September 3 and September 17. Where a parcel sits matters more than usual this year, because the value movement was not uniform. The countywide roll rose 3.50 percent and the unincorporated area roll rose 3.00 percent, but inside the special districts the range is wide: Blue Sage up 26.03 percent, 42nd Avenue Southeast up 20.74 percent, Immokalee Beautification up 11.12 percent and Goodland and Horr's Island Fire up 9.25 percent, against Forest Lakes Roadway and Drainage down 6.12 percent, Rock Road down 0.99 percent, Pelican Bay down 0.72 percent and Palm River Sidewalk down 0.56 percent. A homeowner in a district whose values fell can see a district line drop while the countywide lines rise. One rate in the table actually falls. Bayshore Avalon Beautification comes down from 2.1104 to 2.0000, and that single cut is why the aggregate proposed rate of 3.7640 lands a whisker under last year's 3.7645 even though almost nothing else moved.

Collier County's commissioners adopted the property tax rates for the 2027 budget year on July 14, and they are the same rates they set last year.

The numbers sit in the county's Fiscal Year 2026-27 Tentative Budget, transmitted to the board on July 15 by County Manager Amy Patterson under section 129.03(3) of the Florida Statutes. The memorandum at the front of it states that the July 14 vote fixed the maximum rates to be levied in the coming year, and that those rates go to the Collier County Property Appraiser for use in preparing the Notice of Proposed Property Taxes that Florida law requires before any budget can be adopted.

The countywide General Fund rate is 3.0107 per 1,000 dollars of taxable value, unchanged. Water Pollution Control is 0.0246 and Conservation Collier is 0.2096, both unchanged, for a countywide total of 3.2449. Owners outside a city also pay the Unincorporated Area General Fund rate of 0.6844, again unchanged.

Taxable value did move. The county's value table puts the countywide roll at 170,279,116,342 dollars on the July 1 certification, against 164,522,640,259 dollars the year before, a rise of 3.50 percent. The unincorporated area roll rose 3.00 percent.

That is the whole story of the levy. Applying an unchanged rate to a larger roll produces 512,659,336 dollars from the General Fund against 495,328,313 dollars last year, and 640,926,975 dollars across every county district against 619,802,690 dollars, an increase of 21,124,285 dollars.

Measured against the rolled back rate, which is the rate that would raise last year's money from the same properties, the General Fund rate is 0.98 percent higher and the countywide subtotal is 1.01 percent higher. The aggregate rate for all county taxing districts is proposed at 3.7640 against a rolled back 3.7444, and against 3.7645 last year, a fraction lower than last year because Bayshore Avalon Beautification is cut from 2.1104 to 2.0000.

Value growth inside the special districts was uneven. Blue Sage rose 26.03 percent, 42nd Avenue Southeast 20.74 percent and Immokalee Beautification 11.12 percent, while Forest Lakes Roadway and Drainage fell 6.12 percent and Pelican Bay fell 0.72 percent.

The rates are maxima. The memorandum states they cannot be increased without extraordinary public notice and advertising, and that the board may hold or lower them in each district through the rest of the process. The board reaffirmed its budget hearings for September 3 and September 17.

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