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St. Louis committee advances 1% earnings-tax renewal to voters
Summary
The Budget and Public Employees Committee voted Nov. 19 to send Board Bill 100 to the full board with a due-pass recommendation; the bill would place a 1% earnings-tax renewal on the April 2026 ballot after a presentation showing the tax supplies roughly 38% of the city's general fund.
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis City Budget and Public Employees Committee voted Nov. 19 to advance Board Bill 100, a proposal to place a 1% earnings-tax renewal before voters in April 2026, after hearing a presentation from the city's budget director on the levy's budgetary role.
Budget Director Paul Payne told the committee the city's recent general-fund budget totals about $607.4 million and that earnings-tax receipts are the largest single source in that fund. "The individual portion of the earnings tax totals just under 80% of the total earnings tax receipts," Payne said, describing the tax as a 1% individual levy on earnings and a 1% corporate levy on net business profits. He added the earnings tax has been…
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