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Platte City, MO
Platte County
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[CC 1992 §125.080; Ord. No. 336 §1, 6-6-1979]
A City sales tax at the rate of one percent (1%) on the receipts from the sale at retail of all tangible personal property or taxable services at retail within the City is imposed upon all sellers within the City for the privilege of engaging in the business of selling tangible personal property or rendering taxable services at retail to the extent and in the manner provided by the Revised Statutes of Missouri and the rules and regulations of the Director of Revenue of the State of Missouri issued pursuant thereto.
[CC 1992 §125.090; Ord. No. 527 §§1 — 2, 9-10-1990; Ord. No. 542 §2, 3-25-1991]
A. 
A City sales tax at the rate of one-half of one percent (0.5%) on the receipts from all retail sales within the City of Platte City is hereby imposed upon all sellers within the City of Platte City for the privilege of engaging in the business of selling tangible personal property or rendering taxable services at retail to the extent and in the manner provided by Section 94.577, RSMo., 1989, Supp., and the rules and regulations of the Director of Revenue of the State of Missouri issued pursuant thereto.
B. 
The tax authorized herein shall be in addition to any and all other sales taxes previously imposed, levied or assessed.
[Ord. No. 1908, 1-21-2020[1]]
A. 
Pursuant to the authority granted by, and subject to, the provisions of Sections 144.600 through 144.761, RSMo., a use tax for general revenue purposes is imposed for the privilege of storing, using or consuming within the City any article of tangible personal property. This tax does not apply with respect to the storage, use or consumption of any article of tangible personal property purchased, produced or manufactured outside this State until the transportation of the article has finally come to rest within this City or until the article has become commingled with the general mass of property of this City.
B. 
The rate of the tax shall be 2.375 percent (2.375%). If any City sales tax is repealed or the rate thereof is reduced or raised by voter approval, the City use tax rate also shall be deemed to be repealed, reduced or raised by the same action repealing, reducing or raising the City sales tax.
C. 
Revenue from such tax shall be allocated to fund police, street maintenance, parks and capital improvement functions of the City.
D. 
A use tax return shall not be required to be filed by persons whose purchases from out-of-State vendors do not in total exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) in any calendar year.
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Editor's Note: This tax passed at the rescheduled municipal election held 6-2-2020.
[Ord. No. 1420 §1, 6-15-2005; Ord. No. 1869, 6-26-2018]
The City of Platte City, Missouri, is hereby authorized to impose a sales tax of three-eighths of one percent (0.375%) for street improvements and other transportation purposes. Such tax was set to terminate when the obligations represented by the City's general obligation bonds approved by the voters on April 5, 2005, had been paid in full, however, the extension of this tax at the election held November 6, 2018, continued the City's existing transportation sales tax used to construct, repair, operate, improve and maintain streets, roads, alleys, highways, trails and sidewalks and other transportation purposes in Platte City for a period of twenty (20) years from the date on which such existing tax would have otherwise expired.
[Ord. No. 1689 §3, 4-27-2011]
The City of Platte City hereby determines that it will participate by "opting in" to the provisions of Section 144.049, RSMo., thus exempting sales of certain clothing, personal computers, certain computer software, and school supplies that occur within the boundaries of said City beginning at 12:01 A.M. on the first (1st) Friday in August and ending at Midnight on the Sunday following from local sales taxes.
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Editor's Note — Ord. no. 1689 §1, adopted April 27, 2011, rescinds section 135.120 "opt out of state imposed sales tax holiday" and has enacted new provisions that the city will opt in to the back to school sales tax holiday. Former section 135.120 derived from ord. no. 1457 §1, 1-25-2006.
[Ord. No. 1610 §§1 — 2, 1-14-2009]
A. 
The City of Platte City hereby determines that it will participate in the provisions of Section 144.526, RSMo., 2008, from exempting sales tax of certain energy star certified appliances that occur within the boundaries of said City beginning at 12:01 A.M. on the nineteenth (19th) day of April and ending at Midnight on the twenty-fifth (25th) day of April from local sales taxes.
B. 
The City Clerk is hereby directed to send written notice to the State of Missouri Department of Revenue as soon as possible, but no later than March 5, 2009, of the decision to participate in the "Show Me Green Sales Tax Holiday" by forwarding a cover letter and certified copy of this Section.
[Ord. No. 849 §§1 — 4, 3-13-1996]
A. 
There is hereby imposed a sales tax in the amount of one-half of one percent (0.5%) on all retail sales made in the City of Platte City, Missouri, which are subject to taxation under the provisions of Sections 144.010 — 144.525, RSMo., in addition to all other sales taxes imposed by law or ordinance.
B. 
All sales taxes collected pursuant to this Section, less the applicable cost of collection, shall upon payment to the Treasurer of the City of Platte City, Missouri, be appropriated and expended exclusively for the acquisition, development, maintenance and improvement of Platte City parks.
C. 
The City Treasurer for the City of Platte City shall maintain a separate accounting fund for the receipt and expenditure of the sales tax funds authorized hereby.