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Bill to clarify when taxing jurisdictions may return to higher rate ceilings debated after Town and Country example (House Bill 783)
Summary
House Bill 783 would clarify when political subdivisions may return to a previously authorized higher tax‑rate ceiling without a new voter referendum, addressing a practice cited in Town and Country, St. Louis County, where local officials reportedly used an old ceiling to raise rates decades later.
Representative Ben Keathley introduced House Bill 783, a clarifying bill that follows instructions in the state auditor’s annual property tax report to explain how political subdivisions should treat tax‑rate ceilings across reassessment cycles.
The sponsor said the bill preserves flexibility for jurisdictions to ‘‘rebalance’’ rates in non‑reassessment years but clarifies that if a jurisdiction voluntarily rolls back its rate one year and does not readjust within the next reassessment cycle, the…
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