[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Commission
of the City of Parsons as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-5-1983 by Ord. No. 5296 (§ 14-1
of the 1985 Code)]
There is hereby imposed an emergency telephone
tax to provide funds for the payment of such emergency telephone service
in the amount of 2% of the tariff rate in those portions of the City
for which emergency telephone service is or shall be contracted.
[Adopted 8-21-2023 by Ord. No. 6540[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance superseded former Art. II, Retailers’
Sales Tax, adopted 12-6-2021 by Ord. No. 6506.
A majority of the electors voting thereon having approved at
a special question election held on the 1st day of August, 2023, the
levying of an additional retailers' sales tax in the City of Parsons,
Kansas, as authorized by K.S.A. § 12-287 et seq., as amended,
there is hereby levied a City retailers' sales tax in the amount of
0.5% to take effect on the first day of January, 2024, for a period
of 10 years.
Except as may be otherwise be provided by law, such tax shall
be identical in its application and exemptions therefrom to the Kansas
Retailers' Sales Tax Act and all laws and administrative rules and
regulations of the Kansas Department of Revenue relating to the state's
retailers' sales tax shall apply to such City's retailers' sales tax
insofar as such laws and regulations may be made applicable. The services
of the Department of Revenue shall be utilized to administer, enforce
and collect such tax.
This article shall be published once in the official City newspaper
and a copy duly certified shall be submitted to the State Director
of Taxation.
