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MO HJR67

Joint Resolution

Status

Introduced

1/6/2010

Primary Sponsor

Bryan Pratt

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Origin

House of Representatives

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Submits to Missouri voters a constitutional amendment repealing and replacing section 6 of article X relating to property taxation.

  • Adds new exemption from property taxation for all real and personal property owned by any Missouri citizen who is 65 years of age or older.

  • Maintains existing exemptions for state and county property, nonprofit cemeteries, industrial inventories, and property used for religious worship, schools, charities, and veterans' organizations.

  • Requires counties to impose a countywide tax on commercial property (subclass 3 of class 1) to replace revenues lost from personal property exemptions for manufacturers, refiners, distributors, and retail merchants.

  • Allows voters in a county to approve decreases to the replacement tax rate through majority vote or by petition of at least 8 percent of qualified voters from the preceding gubernatorial election.

Legislative Description

Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing an exemption from property tax on all real and personal property of any citizen of the state who is 65 years of age or older

Last Action

Referred: Ways and Means (H)

5/14/2010

Committee Referrals

Ways And Means5/14/2010

Full Bill Text

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