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Committee considers bills to clarify sales-tax treatment of consignment and auction sales
Summary
Representatives presented House Bills 493 and 635, which aim to clarify when used-goods sales through consignment, auctioneers or resale shops are subject to sales tax. Auctioneers and consignment operators sought a statutory fix to long-standing confusion; some lawmakers said sales at business premises should be taxed.
The Ways and Means Committee heard two near-identical measures — House Bill 493 and House Bill 635 — intended to resolve ambiguity in how Missouri sales tax applies to used goods sold by auctioneers, consignment dealers and resale shops.
Representatives Jeff Knight and Dean Manscope described the bills as clarifying existing statute so that property sold at an individual’s residence during a private sale would remain exempt but items taken to an established business location for consignment or sale would be…
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