| HB 0745 | Expands sales tax provision for law enforcement to include fire protection |
SCS/HB 745 - This act expands current law allowing all counties except Jackson and St. Louis to impose a one-half cent tax on retail sales for the purpose of providing law enforcement. The act adds St. Louis City.
Language identical to the provisions for deposit of collected taxes into the County Public Safety Sales Tax Trust Fund is added for a fund applicable to a city.
This act also expands provisions to impose a sales tax up to
one-fourth of one percent on retail sales for providing fire
protection. The current law limits this taxing ability to those
fire districts meeting certain population requirements and in a
first class county, except St. Louis County. The act expands the
taxing ability to any municipality having a municipal fire
department or any fire protection district.
CHARLES HATCHER