St. Lucie County Tax Collector Offices and Services

The St. Lucie County Tax Collector serves the public from three offices, in Fort Pierce on Virginia Avenue, on SE Walton Road in Port St. Lucie and in Tradition on SW Village Parkway, all reached at 772-462-1650.

Only the Tradition office opens on Saturday, by appointment from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Contact Us page). The Tax Collector's pages do not agree on Saturday driver license hours: the Contact Us and Make an Appointment pages list 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., while the office-hours footer on the Services page lists 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with testing ending at 4:30 p.m. The same footer says weekday driver license testing ends at 3:30 p.m. in Fort Pierce and Walton Road and at 4:30 p.m. in Tradition. Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the Tax Collector contact, appointment, services, taxes and discounts pages and Florida Statutes 197.162.

Appointments are booked online at all three St. Lucie County Tax Collector offices, walk-ins are taken in a set afternoon window, and only St. Lucie County residents are served.

The Make an Appointment page says the office is only servicing St. Lucie County residents, that people establishing residency in the county count as residents, and that appointments made by residents of another county will not be honored. Each person who needs service needs a separate appointment, so a couple who just moved to St. Lucie County and both need new driver licenses must book two, though both can take the same date and time. Customers who need a language interpreter must bring one, because the office does not provide that service. The same page notes that a yellow license plate sticker can be renewed online with no appointment, and that property taxes can be paid online.

The Taxes page repeats the split: service by appointment from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. or walk-in at any office between 2:30 and 5 p.m., with a note that all driver license services end at 4:30 p.m. That note does not match the Contact Us page, which lists Tradition driver license services until 5:30 p.m. on weekdays.

The St. Lucie County Tax Collector handles motorist services such as driver licenses, ID cards, titles and registrations, along with property taxes, the local business tax, the tourist development tax, hunting and fishing licenses and concealed weapon permits.

The Tax Collector Services page lists motor vehicle work by type: titles and registrations, duplicate titles, out-of-state vehicles, transfers of ownership, Express Lane registration renewals, specialty and personalized plates, vessels and mobile homes, plus driver licenses and ID cards, driving improvement courses, handicap placards and services for military members and veterans. It describes the St. Lucie County Local Business Tax Receipt as required by Ordinance Number 07-016 for all businesses or professions located in the county, and the Tourist Development Tax, also called the tourist, bed or resort tax, as a 5% charge on the revenue from rentals of living quarters for six months or less. A Dealers Corner serves licensed motor vehicle, mobile home and recreational vehicle dealers.

Property taxes are the other half of the job. The Taxes page says the Tax Collector collects all ad valorem taxes levied in St. Lucie County as well as non-ad valorem assessments, handles tangible personal property tax, and takes tax deed applications from certificate holders once two or more years have passed since April 1 of the year the certificate was issued. Questions about millage rates go to the taxing authorities that set them, not to the Tax Collector.

St. Lucie County property tax bills go out around November 1, earn a 4% discount in November, 3% in December, 2% in January and 1% in February, carry no discount in March, and become delinquent on April 1.

The Tax Collector Discounts and Payment Plans page sets out that schedule and says payments made on or after April 1 are delinquent and subject to a penalty. The Taxes page states that Florida law requires all real estate taxes to be paid by March 31 each year. The discount rates come from section 197.162, Florida Statutes, which also says that if a discount period ends on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, it runs to the next working day when payment is delivered to the tax collector's designated collection office.

For receipts, the Taxes page tells payers to keep the upper portion of the bill with the canceled check or the bank's image of it; the St. Lucie County Tax Collector mails no receipt unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope comes with the payment.

Yes: the St. Lucie County Tax Collector accepts up to 3 partial payments of at least $100 between November and March, and runs a four-payment installment plan for owners who apply by April 30 of the tax year.

The St. Lucie County Discounts and Payment Plans page cites Florida Statute 197.374 for partial payments on real property or tangible personal property taxes. No discount applies to partial payments, none are accepted after March 31, and any unpaid real estate balance on April 1 is subject to a tax certificate sale, while unpaid tangible taxes can lead to a tax warrant. The installment plan splits the estimated tax into four quarters due by June 30, September 30, December 30 and March 31, with discounts of 6%, 4.5% and 3% on the first three and none on the fourth. To qualify, the estimated tax must be more than $100, and past due taxes are not eligible.

The same St. Lucie County page describes the Homestead Tax Deferral Program for owners whose incomes are low compared with the taxes due on their homes: anyone entitled to claim a homestead exemption through the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser may qualify to postpone part of the tax based on household income.

Section 197.374, Florida Statutes lets a tax collector accept one or more partial payments of any amount at its discretion before delinquency, says a partial payment is not eligible for the section 197.162 discounts, requires at least one mailed notice of the balance due, and allows an underpayment of $10 or less to be treated as payment in full at the tax collector's discretion.

The St. Lucie County Tax Collector takes mail at a Fort Pierce post office box, questions by email at taxcollector@tcslc.com, and online payments for property taxes, local business tax and motorist renewals.

The Contact Us page gives the mailing address as P.O. Box 308, Fort Pierce, FL 34954, recommends email for a faster response, and warns that under Florida law email addresses are public records, so anyone who does not want an address released in response to a public records request should call or write instead. Checks are made payable to the St. Lucie County Tax Collector. The Taxes page lists online payment for real estate tax, tangible personal property tax, local business tax and Motorist Services renewals.