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Missouri Prohibit Taxes on Personal Property Initiative (2020)
| Missouri Prohibit Taxes on Personal Property Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Taxes and Property | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Prohibit Taxes on Personal Property Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The ballot measure would have prohibited the state and local governments from taxing personal property, other than the sales tax at the time of the property's purchase.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title would have been as follows:[1]
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Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to prohibit the state, counties, and all other political subdivisions from imposing or collecting any tax on personal property other than sales tax, which may be collected each time the property is purchased? State and local governmental entities estimate reduced tax revenues ranging from $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion annually.[2] |
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Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Sponsor
STOPP (Stop Taxing Our Personal Property) led the campaign in support of the initiative.[3]
Campaign finance
| Total campaign contributions: | |
| Support: | $10,638.22 |
| Opposition: | $0.00 |
There was one political action committee, STOPP (Stop Taxing Our Personal Property), registered to support the measure. As of January 15, 2020, the committee had raised $10,638.22.[4]
Support
The following table includes contribution and expenditure totals for the committee in support of the measure:[4]
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Path to the ballot
Process in Missouri
In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in six of the eight state congressional districts. Signatures must be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: The smallest possible requirement was 160,199 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures were collected.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was May 3, 2020.
Once the signatures have been filed with the secretary of state, the secretary copies the petition sheets and transmits them to county election authorities for verification. The secretary of state may choose whether the signatures are to be verified by a 5 percent random sample or full verification. If the random sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If more than 110 percent, the initiative is certified, and, if less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
Stages of this initiative
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- Rik Combs filed the ballot initiative on January 18, 2019. On March 4, 2019, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) approved the initiative for signature gathering.[1]
- On April 3, 2020, Stop Taxing Our Personal Property reported to Ballotpedia that it was suspending its signature drive due to the coronavirus pandemic.[5]
To learn more about how the coronavirus pandemic impacted ballot measure campaigns, see the following: Changes to ballot measure campaigns, procedures, and policies in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020-2022
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretary of State, "2020 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed February 11, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ STOPP, "Home," accessed April 3, 2020
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Missouri Campaign Finance Search, "STOPP (Stop Taxing Our Personal Property)," accessed January 28, 2020
- ↑ Email from Stop Taxing Our Personal Property to Victoria Antram, April 3, 2020
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