The North Mercer Board of Education has set the district’s property tax levy at nearly $3.97 on the one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, which is nearly sixteen cents lower than last year. The assessed valuation in the North Mercer district is up by more than $2,000,000 compared to last year, with this year’s assessed […]
The Trenton City Council holds a public hearing August 22nd on the proposed Trenton city property tax levy. The proposed levy totals nearly $1.11 cents on the 100 dollars of assessed valuation. The amount is nearly two cents higher than last year. The levy breakdown shows slightly over 93 cents on the 100 dollars of […]
The Grundy County Commission holds a public hearing August 16th on the proposed property tax levy for this year. A levy of slightly over eighteen cents on the one hundred dollars of assessed valuation is proposed, which is an increase of nearly one cent on the one hundred dollars of assessed valuation compared to last […]
By state law, the back to school sales tax holiday begins on the first Friday in August and continues through the following Sunday. This year, the three-day holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, August 5th, and runs through Sunday, August 7th. Certain back-to-school purchases, such as clothing, school supplies, computers, and other items as […]
A public hearing on the Trenton R-9 School District tax levy will be held just minutes prior to the August 9th board of education meeting. The hearing at the district office on Normal Street begins at 5:25 that afternoon with the regular agenda items to begin at 5:30. Information on the agenda will be released […]
Four St. Joseph, Mo., residents were indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a $1.5 million tax fraud scheme as well as individual tax fraud. Dinorah Stoll-Weaver, 48, her sister, Dawn Langlais (formerly Ankrom-Brown), 58, her husband, Thad Weaver, 45, and Langlais’s daughter, Jennifer Sturgis, 37, all of St. Joseph, were charged […]
The collection of Trenton’s newest sales tax begins the first of October. That’s according to City Clerk Cindy Simpson who noted the Missouri Department of Revenue will be sending letters around September 10th to local businesses advising them of the increase in the local sales tax. This will be the fourth city sales tax. City […]
Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway today released an audit of Linn County government, highlighting a need for increased measures to protect citizen data in the property tax system, a component of the county’s computer system. Auditors found multiple employees of the collector treasurer’s office shared log-in information, increasing the risk of unauthorized access to the […]
Trenton city sales tax receipts are up more than three percent for general purposes and capital projects, up four percent for parks. That’s for the first two months of this fiscal year compared to the same period a year ago. Income from those sales taxes is nearly 136-thousand dollars for general purposes, nearly 68-thousand dollars […]
The Fire Fighters Association of Missouri has named The Chillicothe Fire Department as “Department Of The Year” for 2016. The FFAM serves 7, 533 members and 367 fire departments. The award was presented to the department at the FFAM 62 annual convention held at Tan Tara resort. The Chillicothe Fire Department is a progressive Department with […]
A Trenton committee promoting the city sales tax issue for the fire department points out home and business owners could see lower insurance premiums once a proposed fire training facility is established at Trenton. Part of the revenue generated by a one-quarter of a cent sales tax is earmarked for firefighter training locally and from […]
