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Title X TAXATION AND REVENUE

Chapter 137

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  137.100.  Certain property exempt from taxes. — The following subjects are exempt from taxation for state, county or local purposes:

  (1) Lands and other property belonging to this state;

  (2) Lands and other property belonging to any city, county or other political subdivision in this state, including market houses, town halls and other public structures, with their furniture and equipments, and on public squares and lots kept open for health, use or ornament;

  (3) Nonprofit cemeteries;

  (4) The real estate and tangible personal property which is used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural societies organized in this state, including not-for-profit agribusiness associations;

  (5) All property, real and personal, actually and regularly used exclusively for religious worship, for schools and colleges, or for purposes purely charitable and not held for private or corporate profit, except that the exemption herein granted does not include real property not actually used or occupied for the purpose of the organization but held or used as investment even though the income or rentals received therefrom is used wholly for religious, educational or charitable purposes;

  (6) Household goods, furniture, wearing apparel and articles of personal use and adornment, as defined by the state tax commission, owned and used by a person in his home or dwelling place;

  (7) Motor vehicles leased for a period of at least one year to this state or to any city, county, or political subdivision; and

  (8) Real or personal property leased or otherwise transferred by an interstate compact agency created pursuant to sections 70.370 to 70.430*, RSMo, or sections 238.010 to 238.100, RSMo, to another for which or whom such property is not exempt when immediately after the lease or transfer, the interstate compact agency enters into a leaseback or other agreement that directly or indirectly gives such interstate compact agency a right to use, control, and possess the property; provided, however, that in the event of a conveyance of such property, the interstate compact agency must retain an option to purchase the property at a future date or, within the limitations period for reverters, the property must revert back to the interstate compact agency. Property will no longer be exempt under this subdivision in the event of a conveyance as of the date, if any, when:

  (a) The right of the interstate compact agency to use, control, and possess the property is terminated;

  (b) The interstate compact agency no longer has an option to purchase or otherwise acquire the property; and

  (c) There are** no provisions for reverter of the property within the limitation period for reverters.

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(RSMo 1939 §§ 10937, 10938, A.L. 1945 p. 1799 § 5, A.L. 1959 H.B. 108, A.L. 1974 S.B. 333, A.L. 1999 S.B. 219, A.L. 2003 S.B. 11, A.L. 2004 H.B. 795, et al. merged with H.B. 1182)

Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 9743, 9744; 1919 §§ 12753, 12754; 1909 §§ 11335, 11336

Effective 6-23-04 (H.B. 1182); 7-02-04 (H.B. 795, et al.)

*Section 70.430 was repealed by S.B. 1001 in 2000.

**Word "is" appears in original rolls.

(2002) Low-income housing tax credits are intangible personal property and thus cannot be included in valuation of real property.  Maryville Properties, L.P. v. Nelson, 83 S.W.3d 608 (Mo.App. W.D.).


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