Okaloosa County, a Tax by Any Other Name (User Fee) is Still a Tax

By D. L. Norris From taxhistory.org, there are “four ways governments extract money from persons: 1.) taxes, including special assessments and franchise and privilege license taxes 2.) user fees 3.) civil regulatory penalties 4.) criminal penalties” Both taxes and fees were created by the government to raise revenue so why the need to separate the …