Earnings Tax

St. Louis Budget Director Paul Payne faced a barrage of questions from Missouri House members over the city’s earnings tax on Monday.

A committee examining city earnings taxes will meet again in St. Louis on Monday.

As the St. Louis Board of Aldermen considers a proposal to provide property tax relief for seniors, the St. Louis County Council will again debate the issue after rejecting an earlier bill. The discussions come as the Missouri House continues to examine personal property taxes and the earnings tax.

St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones beat Alderwoman Cara Spencer, D-20th Ward, on Tuesday to become the city’s first Black woman mayor.

St. Louis voters will also decide races for mayor, aldermanic elections in 16 of the city’s 28 wards, whether again to retain the earnings tax and six ballot issues addressing the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District borrowing $500 million to improve wastewater service and changes to the utility’s charter. St. Louis County voters will also weigh in on MSD.

St. Louis officials are asking voters to reauthorize the 1% earnings tax for people who live or work in the city. The revenue provides more than a third of the city's budget.

They argue their clients should be refunded the city's 1% earnings tax because they worked from home outside of the city during the pandemic.

St. Louis Collector of Revenue Gregory F.X. Daly is one of the main supporters of Prop E, which would retain the city's 1% earnings tax on people who live or work in St. Louis.

St. Louis is changing the rules for taxing telecommuters, a move tax experts say could make the city’s earnings tax vulnerable to legal challenges.Noncity…

The latest legislation against the 1 percent earnings tax in St. Louis is on hold in the Missouri Senate.Late Monday, Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, unveiled…