Developers quietly add tax at some Missouri stores (Columbia Missourian)

6 March 2010, 6:37 pm

JEFFERSON CITY — Every day consumers who shop at hundreds of stores across Missouri pay pennies — or dollars — more on each purchase they make, because some stores impose an extra sales tax on which voters don't get a say. The number of these special taxing districts in Missouri leapt from zero to more than 160 in a little over a decade, which has led state auditors to question how much ...... Read More »

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