Miami Beach now has DMV services. Here’s what you need to know
Miami Beach residents no longer need to cross Biscayne Bay for their DMV needs.
A new office in South Beach is open for appointments, offering driver’s license and motor vehicle services along with property and business tax payments.
The location at 100 16th St. is run by Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, who held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning with Miami Beach officials.
In a statement, Fernandez called the opening “a historic milestone for Miami-Dade County.”
“For the first time, we are bringing Tax Collector services directly to the residents of Miami Beach — expanding access, increasing efficiency, and delivering a modern, people-first experience,” Fernandez said.
The new Miami Beach location has 14 customer service windows and provides “every major service the Tax Collector’s Office offers,” according to Fernandez’s office.
Appointments are available 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Walk-ins are also welcome.
Fernandez, a Republican who took office last year, has described long wait times at driver’s license offices in Miami-Dade as a “crisis.”
In February 2025, the Miami Beach City Commission passed a resolution directing Fernandez to explore the viability of a service center in the city. The resolution noted that service centers run by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles are “often overcrowded, relatively far away from the City, and not properly staffed, resulting in an inability to schedule timely appointments, poor customer service, and long wait times.”
A groundbreaking for the Miami Beach office was held in November. Fernandez said at the time that Miami Beach residents “deserve the same convenience and efficiency available in every other part of the county” and described the office as “a cornerstone of [his] countywide strategy to expand access through new offices, mobile units, and community-centered service models.”
Fernandez also opened a new office in Coral Gables in August.
The tax collector assumed responsibility for issuing driver’s licenses — a task previously handled by the state — after a 2018 constitutional amendment required Miami-Dade County to establish an elected tax collector’s office.
To facilitate the transition, Fernandez said when he took office that he would exercise his authority to keep 2% of property-tax money from the county and Miami-Dade’s 34 cities, estimated at $171 million last year. That included $6 million from Miami Beach.
But in August, Fernandez said his office waived the 2% commission for cities and returned more than 60% of the total commission to the county and other taxing authorities.
This story was originally published March 5, 2026 at 12:09 PM.
