State-Created Tax Map a Solid Tool for Oversight of Local Sales and Use Taxes
Over the years, I’ve talked a lot about the importance of transparency because transparency can often be an effective tool...
Tax Refund: Failure to Launch
The results are in, and the first year of Missouri’s gas tax refund program couldn’t have gone much worse. Recently,...
More of the Same in Springfield’s New Buc-ee’s CID
The Springfield City Council just repeated an all-too-common Missouri mistake. The council passed a bill creating a new community improvement...
An Updated Look at Tax-Increment Financing
Tax-increment financing (TIF) is a widely used economic development incentive in which property tax revenues are redistributed back to developers....
Missouri’s New Gas Tax Hassle
If you’ve ever bought something that came with a mail-in rebate, the story of Missouri’s new gas tax refund should...
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Theoretical Jobs
H&R Block once claimed to have created more than 2,000 new jobs by moving employees to a different building, courtesy...
St. Louis’s Ridiculously High Sales Taxes
It is often claimed that Missouri is a low-tax state (which it is not), but it is painfully clear that...
Up and Up: Sales Taxes Across the State
Making long-term projections can be tricky business, but figuring out where sales taxes across the state are going is straightforward:...
New Year, New Sales Taxes
By now it shouldn’t surprise us. As we head into the new year, governments across Missouri are getting ready to...
Branson Water Park to Soak Taxpayers
Imagine someone knocking on your door with a business proposal. He and his partners want to build on the vacant...
TIF Doesn’t Create Jobs
Paul F. Byrne, a professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas—who has examined tax increment financing (TIF) use in Missouri...
Subsidies in St. Louis, Part 4: Accountability and Clawbacks
Supporters and opponents of tax subsidies disagree over one key question: Do the jobs and economic activity generated by a...
Road Blocked for Tesla in Missouri
Over the past decade, Tesla has made a name for itself in the automotive industry through innovative design and the...
Taxpayers’ Subsidy Skepticism Is Warranted
The Kansas City Star published a piece last week about subsidized development and its opposition in the region. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the...
TIFs Fail to Meet Expectations
Steve Vockrodt over at The Pitch has an excellent column about how taxpayer subsidized development projects often underperform their goals. He writes...
Don’t Ban Tesla to Protect Middlemen
Missouri auto dealers, through the Missouri Automobile Dealers Association (MADA), is on the offensive. Their target is Tesla, the luxury...
Don’t Ban Tesla, Let It Compete
We wrote last year about the attempt of Missouri Car Dealers and their lobbyists to prohibit Tesla from directly selling...
Missouri House Bill 253…Vetoed! (Part III)
Now all of a sudden Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is concerned about certain businesses getting preferential treatment in the tax...
Missouri House Bill 253…Vetoed! (Part I)
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed Missouri House Bill 253, which would have cut individual...
Not All Ideas Are Bad Ideas
It seems that the Show-Me Institute can be pretty hard on the state government sometimes. For that, we make no...
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