The Taxpayers Research Institute of Missouri is pleased to provide these links to information made available through the hard work of the research staff at the Economic and Policy Analysis Research Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. For more detail on any item, simply click the underlined text.
For a general overview of the history of each of Missouri's major taxes, see the Center's "Historical Summary of Missouri General Fund Tax Rate and Base Adjustments"
The complete "Missouri Historical Tax Summary" contains data regarding receipts of various taxes, including specific information regarding state and federal personal and corporation income tax data for Missouri, numbers of returns filed, major sources of revenue, and other tax information.
The University research center also prepares and updates the "Tax Expenditure Report", showing major tax exemptions and deductions and estimates of the cost of those exemptions and deductions (where available). This online document also contains a brief overview of each of Missouri's tax types and their history.
The "Statistical Abstract for Missouri" contains detailed statistical information for the state of Missouri.
The sources for these data include:
- Missouri Department of Revenue;
- State and Regional Fiscal Studies Unit, University of Missouri-Columbia;
- U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Census Bureau
GOVERNMENTAL EXPENDITURES
Also of interest to taxpayers is the way in which our money is spent by our government. Visit FedSpending.org or USASpending.org to view a searchable database of federal spending information, or visit the Missouri Accountability Portal for state spending data, including tax credit information.
OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE TAXPAYERS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MISSOURI:
STATE REGULATIONS:
From the Missouri Secretary of State (NOTE: you will leave motaxpayers.com if you click these links so be sure you have bookmarked the page):
- For proposed rules and regulations, see the Missouri Register
- For current tax rules and regulations, visit the Code of State Regulations
From the Missouri Department of Revenue:
- Amount of money generated by various taxes and fees
- Local taxes and fees collected by DOR and distributed to each city and county
- Free detailed public reports from DOR tax database
- Detailed information on the source and disposition of non-state funds
- State tax calendar
- Sales tax rate information by specific address or broad area from 1997 to current
- Withholding tax calculator
- DOR's Sales and Use Tax Page
- DOR's Corporation Income Tax Page
- DOR's Corporation Franchise Tax Page
- DOR's Withholding Tax Page
- Information regarding Missouri Tax Credits (see list at left of page and click on the particular tax credit for more information)
- The Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) compiles many statistics and data relating to Missouri, some of which are available by region
From the Internal Revenue Service:
- IRS Main website: Internal Revenue Service
- IRS Forms and Publications
- IRS e-services (registration required)
- IRS Business Page
- IRS Individual Page
- IRS Tax Professionals Page
- Cornell University Law School U. S. Code Collection (with search)
- 2007 Federal Statistical Abstract
- FEDLAW resource of federal legal and legislative information
- USA.GOV Data and Statistics
- USA.GOV Reference Center
- U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Census Bureau
Updated March 11, 2008
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