Florida New Business Tax Receipts

Get newly opened Florida businesses from official county local business tax receipt (BTR) records, normalized into one clean feed. Covers Miami-Dade, Broward, Lee, St. Johns and Osceola counties. A BTR is filed when a business starts operating at a physical location in the county, so each row is a real, local, newly opened business with its address and business type. Unlike Sunbiz entity filings, these are not shell LLCs or out-of-state registrations.

Run it weekly with new-only mode and you'll get just the businesses you haven't seen yet. You're never charged twice for the same business.

Who uses it

• B2B sales & lead gen: insurance agents, accountants, bookkeepers, payroll, merchant services, POS, signage, cleaning, marketing agencies, web designers.
• Local suppliers: restaurant suppliers, commercial cleaning, pest control, waste haulers, security.
• Market research: new-business formation by county, ZIP and industry.
• AI agents & CRMs: a weekly, deduplicated list of new local businesses as JSON.

Output (one row per new business)

Field	Example
businessName	Rzotech LLC
ownerName	Rzotech LLC
address	888 Oak Arbor Cir
city	St Augustine
state	FL
zip	32084
businessType	Computer Services
businessCategory	county class/category when provided
startDate	2026-09-30
county	St. Johns
accountNumber / receiptNumber	county IDs when provided
sourceName / sourceUrl	the official record or file
fetchedAt	2026-10-19T19:43:37Z

Fields a county doesn't publish are null, never guessed.

Input

Field	What it does
counties	Any of miami-dade, broward, lee, st-johns, osceola. Empty means all.
lookbackDays	Window when no Date from is given (default 60).
dateFrom / dateTo	Start or issue date range, YYYY-MM-DD.
businessTypeKeywords	e.g. ["restaurant","cleaning","salon"]. Matches type, category or name, case-insensitive.
newOnly	Default on. Emits only rows never delivered before.
maxItems	Cost cap. 0 means no limit.

Examples

New restaurants and food businesses in South Florida, last 14 days:

{ "counties": ["miami-dade", "broward"], "lookbackDays": 14, "businessTypeKeywords": ["restaurant", "food", "cater"] }

Every new business in Lee County for September 2026, ignoring history:

{ "counties": ["lee"], "dateFrom": "2026-09-01", "dateTo": "2026-09-30", "newOnly": false }

Weekly feed of contractors and home services statewide (all covered counties):

{ "businessTypeKeywords": ["contractor", "handy", "cleaning", "pool", "lawn", "pest"], "lookbackDays": 60 }

Scheduling guide (weekly new-business alerts)

1. Save your input as a Task.
2. Open Schedules, then Create. Use a weekly cron like 0 8 * * 1 (Mondays 08:00) in your timezone, and attach the Task.
3. Keep newOnly = true and lookbackDays at 60 (the default). Counties post records with a lag, and St. Johns and Osceola publish monthly lists, so a wide window catches late postings. New-only mode makes sure you only get each business once.
4. Connect the output to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, a webhook or your CRM through Apify Integrations.

Dedupe memory lives in a named key-value store, fl-new-business-seen, in your own account. Delete it to start fresh. Entries older than 400 days are pruned automatically.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com), so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients can call it directly. Add the server with your Apify token and enable the tool xprm-llc/florida-new-business-tax-receipts. Ask things like "List new restaurants that opened in Broward in the last two weeks." The input is plain JSON with documented fields, and the output is a flat, typed table (see the dataset schema), so agents can filter and summarize it without any scraping logic.

Pricing

You're charged per row delivered. Runs that find nothing new cost almost nothing, and failed sources never produce charged rows.

FAQ

Which counties are covered? Miami-Dade, Broward, Lee, St. Johns and Osceola. We add a county only when it publishes a clean public dataset or download.

Why not Orange, Hillsborough, Palm Beach, Duval, Pinellas or Charlotte? Their new-business lists are behind a captcha, a subscription login or a robots.txt block, or they aren't published as open data at all. We don't bypass any of these.

How fresh is the data? Broward and Lee ArcGIS layers update every few days; Miami-Dade's new-business flag typically lags 3-4 weeks. St. Johns and Osceola post a monthly list.

What if one county is down? The run logs a warning, records it in RUN_SUMMARY, and continues with the other counties. Error rows are never written to your dataset.

Is startDate the opening date? It's the business start date or receipt issue date the county records. Some counties (Lee especially) record future planned start dates. Use dateTo to cap them.

Do I get phone or email? No. This feed only gives the business name, owner, location and type. To reach a business, use its public website or another channel that's appropriate.

Can I get older history? Set dateFrom. The ArcGIS counties keep years of data, while St. Johns and Osceola only offer their current monthly list.

Public records note

All data comes from official public records published by Florida county governments under Florida's public records law (Ch. 119, F.S.). It's read only from openly published ArcGIS REST layers and downloadable files. This Actor uses no logins, captchas, proxies or paid subscriptions, respects robots.txt, rate-limits its requests and identifies itself in its User-Agent. Each row links to its official source. You're responsible for using the data lawfully, including telemarketing (TCPA / Florida Telephone Solicitation Act), CAN-SPAM and do-not-call rules. This Actor isn't affiliated with any county.