Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez said Wednesday he wants to lower the state's sales-tax rate, trimming revenue by almost $5 billion a year. The Miami Republican told House members he has directed Ways & Means Chairman Wyman Duggan to produce a bill next week that would lower the rate from 6% to 5.25%.

Speaker Daniel Perez, a Miami Republican (center), wants to cut Florida's sales tax. Photo: Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via There's a big fight over tax cuts shaping up in Tallahassee.

The proposal from the Florida House Speaker to cut the state sales tax seems to be gaining fast support. A local travel company in Greenland’s capital also cancelled a planned visit by Usha Vance Putin may seize the moment to build a strategic land bridge via the Suwałki Gap,