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On August 26, 2026, the Missouri Department of Revenue issued a letter ruling concluding that “charges for providing medical records on a CD are not subject to Missouri sales tax.” The letter ruling applicant was in the business of retrieving, compiling, reproducing, and furnishing medical records. The applicant in some instances furnished the requested medical…

The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, held that Jefferson City could not proceed with its collection action against Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, AT&T, and Verizon affiliates for delinquent business license taxes. The court held the city lacked standing because, under Missouri law, suits against telecom companies must be brought by a “person” or “corporation,”…

The Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission held that real-estate investment trust (REIT) dividends from sources within Missouri are deductible from Missouri income.

The decision involved a REIT that generates income from mortgages secured by real property. The REIT made distributions of profits derived from sources within Missouri to its controlling interest holder. The controlling interest holder…

On April 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed the Administrative Hearing Commission’s (AHC) decision that replacement equipment used to provide telecommunications services was exempt from use tax under the State’s manufacturing exemption in effect in 2011 and 2012.

Like most States, Missouri exempts from sales and use tax equipment used in manufacturing or…

The Missouri Department of Revenue recently published remote seller and marketplace facilitator FAQs regarding the implementation of the state’s remote seller and marketplace facilitator use tax collection requirement. Beginning January 1, 2023, vendors (including marketplace facilitators) selling tangible personal property into Missouri must collect use tax on the retail sale price if the vendor’s gross…

Missouri Senate Joint Resolution 33 provides that voters will decide whether to amend the state constitution to tax digital products. Missouri’s constitution prohibits expanding the sales and use tax to any services that were not taxable as of January 1, 2015. Joint Resolution 33 proposes to allow taxation of “subscriptions, licenses for digital products, and…

The Missouri Department of Revenue released a private letter ruling issued in December 2021 determining that a company’s private wireless network was not subject to Missouri sales tax. The company provides wireless services in Missouri, including voice, messaging, Internet access and private network services. The private network services provide machine-to-machine data transmission, which is segregated…

Missouri is set to enact economic nexus requirements, asserting a sales and use tax collection obligation on remote sellers and marketplace facilitators. On May 14, 2021, the Missouri Legislature passed S.B. 153, which the governor is widely expected to sign. Upon signing, Missouri will join the other 44 states and the District of Columbia…

The Missouri Supreme Court held that a company’s sales of linens, mattresses, desks, garbage cans, and DVD players to a company operating a chain of hotels were not exempt from sales tax as sales for resale. The court rejected the furnishing company’s argument that the sales were exempt because the hotels built the cost of…