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Living with our property tax: facts, issues, options
A Living Guide to Missouri's property tax

Welcome to the preliminary version of our new dynamic guide concerning Missouri’s $6 billion property tax system. All of the links on this site are function but most contain limited content. Over the next several weeks, these pages will be updated frequently, so check back often.

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Recent Additions More Featured Material
  • Major Report This Week: Parts I and II of a research report on Controlling Property Tax Revenues. This report is being posted in sections over the next few weeks.
    »View a draft of Part 1 here
    »Read Part II here
  • Coming Soon: Part III of our Controlling Property Tax Revenue report will be released to the public. It will also be posted online here.
  • Just Added: Additional content has been added to the Introduction, Tax Revenue and Tax Relief sections.
  • Policy Brief: Acquiring Essential Sales Information is a State Responsibility »Read Report
  • Property Tax Data Tables: A wide variety of data, tables, and graphs covering various issues related to property tax revenue, burden, reliance, and assessments are located here
  • Important Property Tax Legislation: SB711, an omnibus bill pertaining to several aspects of Missouri's property tax, recently passed both chambers and is awaiting the Governor's approval. A summary of the text of the bill can be found here.


 

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»Guide: Background and Use

»Introduction to the Property Tax

»Tax Revenue

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»Tax Rates

»Revenue Limits

»Tax Relief

»Special Issues

»Property Tax Data and Graphs

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