Section 137.910

Title X TAXATION AND REVENUE

Chapter 137

Effective - 28 Aug 1982   

  137.910.  Personal property in transit through state or consigned in transit to warehouse, exempt from taxes, exceptions. — 1.  Personal property in transit through this state is personal property:

  (1)  Which is moving in interstate commerce through or over the territory of the state of Missouri; or

  (2)  Which, for the convenience, pleasure, or business of the shipper or owner, was consigned to a public or private warehouse within the state of Missouri from outside the state of Missouri for storage in transit to a final destination outside of the state, whether such destination is known or specified when transportation begins or afterward, including any time after such personal property has reached the in-transit warehouse in the state of Missouri.

  2.  Such property is deemed to have acquired no situs in this state for any purposes of taxation.

  3.  Beginning January 1, 1983, and continuing through December 31, 1985, such property shall not be deprived of exemption because while in the warehouse the property is broken in bulk, relabeled or repackaged, or because the property is being held for resale or redelivery outside the state.  Beginning January 1, 1986, such property shall not be deprived of exemptions because while in the warehouse the property is assembled, bound, joined, disassembled, divided, cut, broken in bulk, relabeled or repackaged, or because the property is being held for resale or redelivery outside the state; provided that no property shall be entitled to exemption which, while in this state, undergoes any process of manufacture, fabrication, welding, soldering or substantial change of form or chemical composition.

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(L. 1982 S.B. 476 § 2)