Your Boca Raton business tax receipt expires 30 September
Every city business tax receipt runs out at the end of September. What it is, how renewal works, and the second receipt most people forget.
If you run a business inside the City of Boca Raton, you hold a Business Tax Receipt — a BTR — and a Certificate of Use. Both come from chapter 8 of the city's code of ordinances.
The 2026 receipts expire on 30 September 2026. Renewal is open now.
Renewing
The city emails the renewal notice, and the link in it goes to Boca eHub. The sequence is short:
- Find the renewal email.
- Follow the link into Boca eHub and sign in.
- Check the invoice and pay.
- Print the receipt and certificate — they become available about 24 hours after payment.
The email is the part that fails. It goes to whatever address was on the account when it was opened, which for a business a few years old is often somebody who has left. If September is close and nothing has arrived, do not wait for it: call 561-393-7937, or go to 200 NW 2nd Avenue.
The second receipt
A city receipt is not the only one. Palm Beach County issues its own business tax receipt through the Constitutional Tax Collector, and a business inside the city limits needs both.
They are not two errands. The county application is submitted alongside the city one, and city staff sign the zoning authorisation on the county form as part of the process — so bring the completed county application with you, or upload it, when you deal with the city. Going to the county first, without that signature, means coming back.
If your address is in unincorporated county rather than in the city, the county's receipt is the one that applies and the city has none for you. Establish which you are before paying for the wrong thing: see which Boca Raton are you in.
What we are not going to tell you
The fee. It depends on the classification of the business, and a number printed here would be a number somebody budgets off a year from now. The city's business tax page carries the current schedule, and 561-393-7937 will tell you what classification you fall under — which is the part that is actually hard to work out from a table.
Where this comes from
Checked against these on 2026-08-31. Fees, deadlines and portals change — if one of these pages disagrees with this one, the official page is right and we would like to know.
- City of Boca Raton — business tax
- City of Boca Raton — licensing and permitting
- Boca Raton Code of Ordinances, chapter 8
- Boca eHub
- Palm Beach County Constitutional Tax Collector — business tax
September 2026 — First published.
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