The exemption on the November ballot does not touch your CDD, your fire assessment, or your school tax. Type your address and see your own bill, line by line, before and after.
Built from 10,154 individual parcel records across eleven Sarasota County communities, checked against three real 2026 TRIM notices from three different tax districts.
Every figure comes from your own parcel record on the Sarasota County tax roll and the county's published millage rates. Nothing is estimated and nothing is guessed.
A purchase resets the assessed value to what you pay. Put in a price and pick where.
It is not your whole bill. The increased exemption applies only to the non-school portion of your ad valorem tax. Your school tax keeps the same $25,000 exemption it has today.
It does not touch the non-ad valorem side at all. CDD, fire, solid waste, stormwater. On a Gran Paradiso home that is often more than the entire saving.
Most homes here do not reach zero. The figure repeated statewide is that roughly 60% of homesteaded owners would owe no non-school property tax. Across the eleven communities measured here it runs between 6% and 44%.
Every homesteaded parcel in eleven Sarasota County communities, modelled at the full $250,000 exemption in 2028. Owe zero non-school tax is the share of homesteaded owners whose non-school ad valorem tax would fall to nothing. The saving column is the reduction on that one line only, and it does not include school tax or anything on the non-ad valorem side.
| Community | Homesteads | Median assessed | Owe zero non-school tax | Median saving in 2028 |
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The saving column shows only two values across all eleven communities because the median home in each one is assessed high enough that the full $250,000 exemption applies. The saving is then simply the difference between the old and new exemption at that parcel's millage rate, and there are only two millage rates among these communities. Homes assessed below about $300,000 see a smaller saving, which is why the percentage column and the saving column do not move together. Modelled from the Sarasota County certified tax roll. The model adds back the current homestead exemption, applies the new amount, and floors at zero, leaving veteran, senior, widow and disability exemptions intact. Millage is the county's published 2025 rate for each parcel's own tax district. 2026 rates are not final until the September budget hearings.
Source. The Sarasota County Property Appraiser's parcel and sales database download, 2026 certified roll, obtained 11 September 2026 from the county's own download data page. Millage comes from the same office's published 2025 rate table by tax district.
How communities were defined. By subdivision code on the county roll, not by ZIP code and not by mailing address. A ZIP grouping would be wrong here: Gran Paradiso, IslandWalk, Renaissance, Sunstone and Brightmore all carry Venice mailing addresses but sit inside the City of North Port for tax purposes and pay its municipal levy. Sarasota National carries a Venice address, is marketed as part of Wellen Park, and is unincorporated. Grouping any of these by ZIP would attribute the wrong millage to thousands of parcels.
What the model does. For each homesteaded parcel it adds back the current homestead exemption, applies the new exemption to non-school millage, and floors the result at zero. Veteran, senior, widow and disability exemptions are left intact and continue to apply to both school and non-school levies. School taxable value is assessed value less $25,000 less any of those personal exemptions, which is the structure the amendment leaves in place.
What it was checked against. Three 2026 TRIM notices from three different tax districts, pulled from the Property Appraiser's own site. Non-school taxable value, school taxable value and total millage matched exactly on all three. Recomputing one notice using the rates printed on that notice produced a figure one cent from the county's own total.
Where it is weak. Four things, stated plainly.
The 2026 millage rates are not final. Budget hearings run through September, and the figures here use the county's published 2025 rates. Expect a difference of a few dollars either way.
Non-ad valorem assessments are not modelled. CDD, fire, solid waste and stormwater appear on your bill and are unaffected by the amendment, but they are not in the county's parcel download and are not calculated here. On a Gran Paradiso parcel the West Villages CDD line alone runs close to $2,000 a year.
This is eleven communities, roughly 10,000 parcels. It is not all of Sarasota County, and communities with older housing stock and lower assessed values would show a higher share reaching zero.
And it assumes the amendment passes as written. It needs 60% approval, a Leon County judge ordered the ballot summary rewritten on 3 August 2026 for being misleading, and implementing legislation would still follow.
The data. Download the community results as a CSV. If you are writing about this and want the parcel-level methodology or a different cut of the numbers, call 941-662-9941.
Every number here comes from two public sources, and you can check a single address against both in about two minutes.
Sarasota County Property Appraiser parcel search gives you your assessed value, your exemptions and a PDF of your own TRIM notice.
The county's own tax estimator works from a parcel number.
If a figure on this page does not match the county, the county is right and I want to know. Text is easiest: 941-662-9941. Calling works too.
3 November 2026. The vote. It needs 60% approval, not a simple majority.
1 January 2027. If it passes, the $150,000 exemption takes effect. It first appears on the August 2027 TRIM notice and the bill mailed in November 2027.
1 January 2028. The exemption rises to $250,000, with inflation adjustments from 2029.
And a date most people have not heard about. Anyone who is a permanent Florida resident by 31 December 2026 is eligible for the larger exemption from the start. Anyone establishing Florida residency on or after 1 January 2027 begins at $50,000 and waits four years. On a home here that difference is several thousand dollars a year.
Four of these communities have a home value tool calibrated to their own recorded sales rather than a national average.
Gran Paradiso · IslandWalk · Palmero · Talon Preserve
And the rest have market data pages: Grand Palm · Sarasota National · Renaissance · Sunstone · Brightmore · Sunrise Preserve
Related: the Florida homestead exemption explained · how gated community and CDD fees work · a home value estimate for any Florida address
This is arithmetic on public records. It is not tax advice, not legal advice, and not an appraisal. It assumes the amendment passes as written, assumes your homestead status does not change, and uses the most recently published millage rates rather than rates that have not been set yet.
For anything that affects what you actually owe, talk to the Sarasota County Property Appraiser at 941-861-8200, or your accountant.