Missouri lawmakers fail to deliver property tax relief amid rising assessments

By: Rudi Keller

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: May 20, 2026

Words: 1,554

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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As the Missouri House began the final day of this year’s session last week, state Rep. Tim Taylor reluctantly reported that last-minute efforts to salvage a package of changes to property tax laws had failed.

For most of the past year, property taxes and how they are levied had dominated the three-term Republican’s legislative work. The change he considered key to making the system fairer had died weeks earlier in disagreements between …

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