These city governments can no longer opt out of back-to-school sales tax holiday

July is winding down, and back-to-school time is right around the corner. Families will get a break under a new Missouri law that keeps local governments from opting out of the annual sales tax holiday. This means both state and local sales taxes will be waived on certain items from August 4-6.

Below is a list of cities that did not participate in the holiday last year.

Sales taxes will not be charged on the following items:

• Clothing that does not have a taxable value of more than $100. Eligible clothing items include any article of apparel intended to be worn on or about the body, including footwear and disposable diapers for infants or adults. Cloth and other material used to make school uniforms or other school clothing also are included;
• School supplies, not exceeding $50 per purchase, used in a standard classroom for educational purposes. School supplies include but are not limited to textbooks, notebooks, paper, writing instruments, crayons, art supplies, rulers, book bags, backpacks, chalk, maps, globes, handheld calculators, graphing calculators that do not have a taxable value of more than $150 and computer software that does not have a taxable value of more than $350;
• Personal computers that do not cost more than $1,500 and computer peripheral devices that do not cost more than $1,500. A personal computer can be a laptop, desktop or tower computer system that consists of a central processing unit, random access memory, storage drive, display monitor and keyboard. Peripheral devices include items such as a disk drive, memory module, compact disk drive, daughterboard, digitizer, microphone, modem, motherboard, mouse, multimedia speaker, printer, scanner, single-user hardware, single-user operating system, soundcard or video card.

Not included are watches, watchbands, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands, belt buckles, radios, CD players, headphones, sporting equipment, portable or desktop telephones, copiers or other office equipment, furniture and fixtures.

Here’s a list of cities that opted out of the 2022 holiday and will now be forced to stop collecting taxes on the above items:

Below is the list of cities that did not participate in the 2022 sales tax holiday. This year, they must participate.

• Alton
• Ash Grove
• Ashland
• Battlefield
• Bellerive Acres
• Berkeley
• Beverly Hills
• Black Jack
• Blackwater
• Bland
• Bloomfield
• Bolivar
• Boonville
• Branson
• Brentwood
• Bridgeton
• Byrnes Mill
• Cabool
• California
• Canton
• Cape Girardeau
• Carl Junction
• Carthage
• Cassville
• Centertown
• Chamois
• Charlack
• Chillicothe
• Claycomo
• Clayton
• Collins
• Columbia
• Concordia
• Cool Valley
• Crestwood
• Crystal City
• Des Peres
• Desloge
• DeSoto
• Doniphan
• Edmundson
• Eldon
• Eldorado Springs
• Ellsinore
• Elsberry
• Everton
• Fair Grove
• Farmington
• Fayette
• Ferguson
• Festus
• Flint Hill
• Freeman
• Fremont Hills
• Frontenac
• Garden City
• Gerald
• Glasgow
• Granby
• Grandin
• Grant City
• Green City
• Greendale
• Half Way
• Hartville
• Hawk Point
• Higginsville
• Hollister
• Holts Summit
• Houston
• Ironton
• Jane
• Jefferson City
• Joplin
• Kingdom City
• Kirkwood
• Koshkonong
• Ladue
• Laurie
• Leadington
• Liberal
• Licking
• Loma Linda
• Manchester
• Maplewood
• Marble Hill
• Marceline
• Marlborough Village
• Marshfield
• Marthasville
• Merriam Woods Village
• Meta
• Moberly
• Monett
• Montgomery City
• Moscow Mills
• Mount Vernon
• Naylor
• Neosho
• New Haven
• New Madrid
• New Melle
• Noel
• Norborne
• Northwoods
• Oakland
• Overland
• Owensville
• Ozark
• Palmyra
• Paris
• Pattonsburg
• Peculiar
• Pevely
• Platte Woods
• Poplar Bluff
• Purdy
• Qulin
• Reeds Spring
• Richmond Heights
• Riverside
• Rock Hill
• Rockaway Beach
• Savannah
• Sedalia
• Seligman
• Shelbina
• Shrewsbury
• Skidmore
• Smithton
• Smithville
• Springfield
• St Ann
• St Elizabeth
• St Mary
• St Peters
• Ste Genevieve
• Stockton
• Sugar Creek
• Taos
• Thayer
• Town & Country
• Trenton
• Twin Oaks
• University City
• Urich
• Vandalia
• Velda
• Walnut Grove
• Warson Woods
• Washburn
• Waynesville
• Webster Groves
• West Plains
• Willard
• Willow Springs

–Alan Goforth | Metro Voice