The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . is illegal because it is an agreement for Pappas to pay commissions, which is prohibited by section 473.3205 . . . Section 473.3205 provides: Commissions. — A licensee who is engaged in the practice of public accounting . . . one at issue in this case, was an agreement to pay commissions and therefore illegal under section 473.3205 . . . construed as an agreement to purchase the accounting practice so that the first exception in section 473.3205 . . . provisions of Paragraph D should not be considered as commissions under the general rule of section 473.3205 . . .
. . . payments to Natherson & Co. on funds earned from the former company clients, in violation of section 473.3205 . . . interpreting this contract, the court erred by allowing the jury to consider the effect of section 473.3205 . . . The trial court found, however, that section 473.3205 barred a liquidated damages clause. . . .
. . . Stat. ch. 473.3205 (1993); (3) not accept contingent fees, Fla. . . .
. . . 1991), nor may licensees “engaged in the practice of public accounting” pay or accept referral fees, §473.3205 . . .