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Growing

Hiring, paying, filing, selling. An employer's duties in Florida and the free public schemes that support growth.

6 guides across 4 areas

01

Hiring

Florida employment law is among the most flexible in the United States, which moves the difficulty elsewhere: finding, convincing and keeping.

  1. Hiring in Florida: the framework What Florida employment law allows, what it requires, and where the difficulty moves when legal constraint is light. Read the guide
  2. Hiring a foreign professional The routes by which a US company can employ a non-resident engineer or executive, and their timelines. Read the guide

02

Payroll and contributions

What an employee actually costs beyond their salary, and the filings that fall due each quarter with nobody reminding you.

  1. What an employee actually costs The withholdings and contributions that sit on top of gross salary, and the periodic filings that follow. Read the guide

03

Company taxation

Florida has no personal income tax, which says nothing about what a company pays, nor about what you may still owe your home country.

  1. Company taxation and double taxation What a company pays in Florida, and how tax treaties treat profit already taxed elsewhere. Read the guide
  2. Sales tax, county by county How sales tax is computed in Florida, why it varies from county to county, and what economic nexus means. Read the guide

04

Selling and invoicing

Finding your first customers when nobody knows your name, and invoicing in a country where sales tax is set county by county.

  1. Finding your first customers on the corridor How a first customer base is built when nobody knows your name or your European references. Read the guide