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Escambia Tax Collector Begins Collection Of Over $526 Million In Taxes
November 2, 2025
Collection has started for real estate and tangible personal property taxes in Escambia County. According to Escambia County Tax Collector Scott Lunsford, this year’s rolls include 184,873 accounts totaling over $526 million. Bills were delivered to the post office on October 31 for mailing.
Tax revenue is generated for the various taxing authorities and is approximated as follows:
- Escambia County Board of County Commissioners – $256 million
- District School Board – $193 million
- City of Pensacola – $34 million
- Sheriff MSTU – $16.5 million
- Escambia Children’s Trust – $12.5 million
- Library MSTU – $11.8 million
- Northwest Florida Water Management – $697,000
- Downtown Improvement Board – $875,000
- Town of Century – $59,800
MSBU collections are detailed as follows:
- County Fire Protection – $37.5 million
- City Stormwater – $4.8 million
- Other MSBUs – $994,000
Payment discounts are available as follows
- November payments are discounted 4%
- December payments are discounted 3%
- January payments are discounted 2%
- February payments are discounted 1%
- March payments receive no discount, and the gross amount is due by close of business on March 31, 2026. Any payment made April 1 and after is considered delinquent and will be assessed a penalty.
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6 Responses to “Escambia Tax Collector Begins Collection Of Over $526 Million In Taxes”
I did not receive mine Saturday, but did receive my 91 year old Mother’s. Her’s increased 214.33 from last year! Why the big increase???
@Susan-already contemplating it.
We just rent our homes, paid for or not, from the state. This rent is based on an arbitrary value, causing us to pay taxes on unrealized gains. Hopefully, the FL legislature will eliminate property taxes on homestead properties.
Look at the amount the Bd of County Commissioners & the District School Board gets. Now find out what the Board members earn……
How long will it be before home owners insurance and Escambia’s overly high property taxes, put mortgage payments out of reach. What do you think, five years and people start moving north? My house is under 15k feet on a 50ft wide lot, and this year my taxes are almost 6k. I had 100 ft of protected waterfront and 2800 ft home in Santa Rosa county and when I moved to this city the taxes were already 1500k more a year. Escambia should cut the budget instead of making us cut ours.
Disgusting. We barely ever see what OUR TAXES go to because it doesn’t do much for us but leave our hard earned pockets. It must be going in other people’s pockets.
Maybe that’s what those ‘sonic booms’ were, yesterday: people opening their tax bills.