Kansas City E-Tax Spared Wrath Of Missouri GOP Super-Majority?!?

Here's the sitch on longstanding tax controversy . . .

A GOP-led Missouri House committee this month released a slew of recommendations, including a gradual phase-out of the earnings tax in Kansas City and St. Louis tied to certain revenue increases. But interviews with lawmakers make clear their anger lies with St. Louis and how the city handled taxing workers during the pandemic.

The panel also recommended exempting new residents and low-income workers from paying the tax, as well as the creation of “opportunity zones” where residents and workers would also be exempt.

“An earnings tax, especially when we’re dealing with two cities that border on other states – it doesn’t necessarily attract business and attract people to the metropolitan area,” said state Rep. Jim Murphy, a St. Louis area Republican who chaired the committee that studied the tax.

Still, Murphy said, “Kansas City was not the main issue.”

Perspective . . .

One more reason that the KCMO E-Tax is here to stay for now is that it ALWAYS wins a landslide vote and sorta serves as an employment program for low-grade political consultants who need biz and a popular issue to sell the public. 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Is Kansas City's earnings tax at risk? MO lawmakers, angry with St. Louis, want changes

"An earnings tax, especially when we're dealing with two cities that border on other states, it doesn't necessarily attract business and attract people to the metropolitan area," said state Rep. Jim Murphy, a St. Louis area Republican.