FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2004

TITLE: PROPERTY TAX DATA RECORDS SUMMARIZED TO SECTION - 1999

Geodataset Name:    TAXS99
Geodataset Type:    TABLE
Geodataset Feature: ATTRIBUTE

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

This dataset contains tax data summarized by use to the Township, Range, Section (TRS) level.

DATA SOURCE(S):                   FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:    N/A

DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE:     SOURCE 1999

GEODATASET EXTENT:                State of Florida

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name:  TAXS99.DBF

ITEM NAME        WIDTH   TYPE      PRECISION
CASE_              5    DECIMAL       -                       
FREQUENCY          5    DECIMAL       -                       
TRS                8    CHARACTER     -                        
DESCRIPT          50    CHARACTER     -                        
USE_CODE           4    CHARACTER     -                        
TOTAL_VAL         18    DECIMAL       6                        
ASSD_VAL          18    DECIMAL       6                        
TAX_VAL           18    DECIMAL       6                        
LAND_VAL          18    DECIMAL       6                        


FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item           Item description

CASE_          Arc/Info internal record number

FREQUENCY      Number of occurrences for each value of the items listed
               below

TRS            Township, range, section

DESCRIPT       Description for the DORCODE

USE_CODE       DOR Use Code (See DESCRIPT ITEM FOR CORRESPONDING ITEM)

TOTAL_VAL       SUM of TOTAL VALUE FOR ALL RECORDS IN THAT TRS SECTION VALUE

ASSD_VAL        SUM OF ASSESSED VALUE FOR ALL RECORDS IN THAT TRS SECTION VALUE

TAX_VAL         SUM OF TAXABLE VALUE FOR ALL RECORDS IN THAT TRS SECTION VALUE

LAND_VAL        SUM OF LAND VALUE FOR ALL RECORDS IN THAT TRS SECTION VALUE

USER NOTES:

- This table was created using the TAXD99 records for each county.  The lack of properly defined township, range and section values in some of the counties can cause some data loss when creating this table. See TAXD99
  metadata to learn more about inherhent errors in tax data.

- Some counties were received with poorly defined township, range, and section items.  Corrections that were
  made are listed below in FGDL Quality Assurance by county. 

- TRS values = 00N00E00 OR 00S00W00 OR 0000000, etc. are records that did not have valid TOWNSHIP RANGE and SECTION 
  Values, this was done to create a uniform representation for these records.

- The Florida Keys (TAXD9944) records were orginally listed as 01S01E01, this was changed to 99S99E99 so as to not
  be confused with the TRS values (01S01E01) found in LEON CO. 

- Escambia Co. has no section values 

- Washington Co. has TRS for only 25507 out of 42878 records

- Wakulla Co. has TRS for only 9476 out of 20934 records

- Nassau Co.  9312 out of 35386 records have no township value

FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:

- This table was created using the TAXD99 records process by the GeoPlan Center.
  Please refer to TAXD99 metadata to determine QA processing of DOR Tax Records.

REFERENCES:

Florida Department of Revenue. 1994. Manual of Instructions for Ad Valorem Tax Administration.

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:

N/A

DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):

Name: 			 FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 
Abbr.name: 		 FDOR
Address: 		 Florida Department of Revenue
                         Service Center
                         2410 Allen Rd.
                         Tallahassee, FL 32303						

Phone: 			 (850) 488-9719 (main number)
                         (850) 488-3338 (property tax appraisers office)
Web site: 		 http://fcn.state.fl.us/dor/
Contact Person: 	 
         Phone: 	 (850) 921-4372

FGDL CONTACT:

Name:			Florida Geographic Data Library
Abbr. Name:		FGDL
Address:		Florida Geographic Data Library
                        431 Architecture
                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
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