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The Ellisville city council has given preliminary approval for a TIF to fund development of a Walmart at the corner of Clarkson and Manchester. That vote overrides the county TIF commission, and apparently, the will of a majority of Ellisville residents.

Residents like Liz Schmidt are baffled by the council’s granting preliminary approval for a Walmart TIF.

The Ellisville City Council has given preliminary approval fora new Walmart TIF, but newly elected Mayor Adam Paul thinks public opinion may still prevail.

Gary Voss has run the West County Lanes in Ellisville for almost three decades. He's against the Walmart TIF.

Should repairs to I-70 be funded through increased gas taxes or tolls?

Do people visiting Missouri take advantage of the Show-Me State's lower excise taxes?

















POLICY STUDY
Tax Increment Financing and Missouri: An Overview Of How TIF Impacts Local Jurisdictions
April 13, 2012

Tax Increment Financing (TIF) has become a common economic developmenttool throughout the United States. TIF takes the new taxes that a...

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COMMENTARY
EEZs Are An EZ Path To Corporate Welfare
April 27, 2012

Columbia city officials have taken a major step toward heavier use of taxpayer subsidies, which already have been proven to fail in Saint Louis and Kansas City.

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CASE STUDY
Homes, Taxes, and Schools: The Effects of School District Rankings and Property Tax Rates on Property Valuations in Richmond Heights, Missouri
August 26, 2011

Cities, counties, school districts, and many other local taxing districts rely on property taxes to fund their operations. For a full review of the details of property assessment and taxation in Missouri, please read Show-Me Institute Policy Study Number 28, “Homes, Taxes and Choices: A Review of Real Estate Assessment and Property Taxation in Missouri.” In Missouri, the local assessor assigns a value to taxable property every two years. Local governments then use those values to set their property tax rates. The rate and value are...

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REPORT
China Hub Tax Incentives More Expensive Than Advertised
April 11, 2011

Saint Louis politicians, media, and bloggers have enthusiastically embraced proposed legislation that would create a package of tax credits and other incentives to establish Lambert International Airport as a "China Hub." The idea is that increased trade between Missouri and China could give both the state and city economies a boost.

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ESSAY
Attacks on Fair Tax Are Propaganda, Not Economic Analysis
March 7, 2012

The Coalition for Missouri’s Future, a group organized to oppose efforts to eliminate Missouri’s income tax and replace it with a more broadly-based sales tax (a.k.a., The Fair Tax), has produced a series of papers questioning the benefits of the switch. The papers — currently there are five — have been written by Brian Schmidt, the former executive director of the Missouri General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Tax Policy, who is now doing private consulting. The papers raise some interesting questions and fair points, but they cannot be...

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TESTIMONY
A Clear Vision of the Eye Exam Mandate
March 7, 2012

Before this body is a proposal that would renew a state mandate requiring optometrist or physician eye exams for incoming kindergartners in Missouri’s public schools (Senate Bill 641). The mandate places both a legal and financial burden on Missouri families that only two other states in the country place on their citizens. There are several troubling aspects of the proposal.

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Aerotropolis Victory - Audrey on KTRS
November 14, 2011

KTRS talk show host McGraw Milhaven recently called Show-Me Policy Analyst Audrey Spalding “the single most powerful woman in the state of ...

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