File #: 21346    Version: 0 Name: change property tax date
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 7/26/2023 In control: Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee
On agenda: 7/31/2023 Final action: 8/28/2023
Title: A RESOLUTION expressing the intent of the Legislature to recommend amending Missouri state statute to allow for a mid-year tax collection date as opposed to the current collection date of December 31st.
Sponsors: Manuel Abarca IV
Indexes: AMENDING, MISSOURI STATE STATUTE, TAX
Attachments: 1. 21346bu.pdf, 2. 21346adopted.pdf

                     IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

A RESOLUTION expressing the intent of the Legislature to recommend amending Missouri state statute to allow for a mid-year tax collection date as opposed to the current collection date of December 31st.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 21346, July 31, 2023

 

INTRODUCED BY Manuel Abarca IV, County Legislator

 

Body

 WHEREAS, taxes are assessed on personal property owned on January 1st of every year, but taxes are not billed until November of the same year; and, 

 

WHEREAS, taxes are due by December 31st for the entire amount assessed and billed regardless of the ownership status of the property or if it has been moved from Jackson County; and,

 

WHEREAS, personal property taxes are levied annually against tangible personal and real property and are due December 31st of each year per Missouri state statute; and,

 

WHEREAS, a mid-year collection of personal property taxes would be appropriate; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Legislature does hereby express its intent and recommendation to the Missouri State Legislature of a mid-year tax collection date.

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

____________________________

County Counselor

 

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 21346 of July 31, 2023, was duly passed on August 28, 2023 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

                                          

Yeas _____5________                                          Nays _______3_______

 

 

Abstaining ____0_____                                                               Absent ______1_______

 

 

 

 

________________________                     _______________________________

Date                     Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature