Broward County Business Tax Records

About the Program

Category: County Administration and Management (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

The Urban Planning Division’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Section was asked to create an application that would visualize business tax records for Broward County and make it easy to digest. A dashboard was then created to compile business tax records for Broward County and for non-Broward based businesses based on data gathered from a third-party vendor. The vendor compiles the data by leveraging the businesses registered with the State of Florida. The business tax records data collected by the third-party vendor was used to create the business tax records dashboard. The user can view businesses across Broward County and filter them based on different parameters. These parameters allow the user to filter the information (around 79k+ businesses) based upon category description, city, business type, commission district, business category type, business start date, and business name. Once a parameter is selected, the map included in the dashboard filters so the user can visually see the data. There is also a description pane that displays the business information as well as the address. Users are also able to download the data as a whole or to download their filtered data. This allows users to use data outside the application promoting external use of the data.