Florida S-Corporation Election
By Edmond Hui · Facts verified July 29, 2026 against primary state sources
Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC
Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.
Does Florida recognize the federal S election?
State treatment of the S election
| Follows the federal election | Yes |
| Separate state election form | None required |
No separate state election to file: the federal election on IRS Form 2553 carries over. That covers the election only, not any return the corporation owes. Of the 50 states, 43 follow the federal election with no state form of their own, and 1 more — New York — recognizes S status but requires an election of its own as well.
What an S corporation still owes Florida
Florida imposes no entity-level tax on S corporations and no personal income tax on pass-through income. An S corporation must file Form F-1120 only if it owes federal tax at the corporate level (e.g., built-in gains or LIFO recapture reported on federal Form 1120-S); otherwise it files no Florida corporate return.
Franchise or gross-receipts tax
Florida has no separate franchise tax and no personal income tax. The corporate tax is a single 'corporate income/franchise tax' at 5.5%, reported on Form F-1120; there is no tax on authorized shares or capital.
Florida corporation vs Florida LLC
State filing charges only. Corporate income tax and franchise tax are excluded because both depend on income or net worth, so no flat figure exists for either entity.
| Corporation | LLC | |
|---|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | $70 | $125 |
| Report cadence | Every year | Every year |
| Report fee | $150 | $138.75 |
Worth noticing: a corporation is $55 cheaper to file here than an LLC. That is the exception nationally — corporations are the cheaper filing in only 15 of the 50 states, the two entities cost the same in 25, and the LLC is cheaper in 10.
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How Florida compares
| State treatment of the federal S election | States |
|---|---|
| Follows the federal election, no state form needed | 43 |
| No corporate income tax, so no state election exists | 4 |
| Has a corporate income tax and does not follow the election — the corporation is taxed like a C corporation | 2 |
| Follow the election but still impose some entity-level tax on the S corporation — California, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Delaware among them | — |
| Require a separate state election form as well | 1 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where these numbers come from
This page covers how Florida treats the federal S-corporation election and what an S corporation still owes the state. Every figure was checked against Florida's own published sources on July 29, 2026— the state business filing agency's fee schedule, the governing statute, and where a state tax applies, the state Department of Revenue. Commercial formation-service pages were used as leads only and are never cited. Anything the review could not confirm from an official source is left blank on this page rather than filled with an estimate.
Corporate income tax and franchise tax are quoted as the state publishes them, as rate schedules and thresholds, and are excluded from every dollar total here. They depend on income or net worth, so there is no flat figure that would be true for every corporation.