earnings tax

The 1% income tax, which applies to anyone who works in Kansas City, Missouri, is the city's largest single source of revenue.

The earnings tax is Kansas City's largest single source of revenue. City leaders say the failure to renew it would be disastrous.

Tax incentives again become a source of contention, on top of the pandemic cutting into the city’s revenues. But BlueScope Construction says its extension was in the works before the truce between Kansas and Missouri, while Kansas City Public Schools argue it’s not worth the loss in public funding.

The Kansas City Council passed a $1.7 billion budget Thursday even though the city does not yet know the full extent of the impact the coronavirus…

Segment 1: Kansas City Chiefs tax documents shed light on revenue streams for NFL teams.If you think the Chiefs must be making a fortune every time you…

Kansas City voters have again renewed the 1 percent earnings tax.Unofficial results had the earnings tax passing with 77 percent of the vote. All…

An earnings tax question tops the ballot in Kansas City April 5, and the Kansas City Elections Board says voting will be quick. But some waited in line…

The first time Kansas City Mayor Sly James says something to me about the earnings tax, it’s right after Thanksgiving.I’ve already turned off my recorder,…

Several dozen Kansas City residents went to the city's first public budget hearing for the 2016-2017 budget Saturday morning, and most who testified had…

Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James made an impassioned plea on behalf of the earnings tax campaign at a NAACP forum Thursday night.“I think the…

Kansas City is no longer the target of a conservative Missouri lawmaker who wants to repeal the earnings tax.Columbia Sen. Kurt Schaefer dropped Kansas…

Gov. Jay Nixon didn’t mince words when asked about the earnings tax during a stop at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley Wednesday.“It is wrong for…