IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
AN ORDINANCE setting the 2026 Jackson County, Missouri tentative tax levy.
Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 6045, December 1, 2025
INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, Chapter 5, section 539.00 of the Jackson County Code requires the County Legislature to adopt a tentative tax levy sufficient to provide for appropriations in the County budget; and,
WHEREAS, the proposed 2026 annual County budget would require the following tax levies on each hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the fiscal year 2026:
FUND
LEVY
General Fund
0.2010
Health Fund
0.2298
Park Fund
0.1157
Special Road & Bridge Fund
0.2066
Senior Citizens' Services Fund
0.0500
TOTAL ALL FUNDS
$0.8031
and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to authorization granted by sections 67.500 through .545, RSMo, the qualified voters in Jackson County on November 6, 1979, approved Jackson County Proposition #1 which imposed a county-wide sales tax of one-half of one percent and required that the total county property tax levy be reduced by 70% of the total amount of the sales tax revenues in the tax year; and,
WHEREAS, section 67.505, RSMo, requires that after the County has determined its budget, the total property tax levy must be reduced in an amount sufficient to decrease the total property taxes it will collect by an amount equal to 70% of the sales tax revenue in the same tax year; and,
WHEREAS, section 67.500 defines "sales tax revenue collected" as the amount of sales tax revenue received by a county during the first six calendar months of any year multiplied by two, which is not to be confused with budgeted revenues; and,
WHEREAS, the tentative estimate of the sales tax revenues in 2026, after economic activity taxes are remitted and prior year sales tax adjustment, is $64,970,477.97; and,
WHEREAS, this tentative estimate is subject to revision based upon actual sales tax revenues during the first six months of 2026 and the p...
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