Missouri local income tax
Tax year 2026
Places listed
2
every one, listed below
Lowest rate
1%
of income
Highest rate
1%
of income
Coverage: complete.
Kansas City and St. Louis are the only two — Missouri law bars any other city from levying an earnings tax, so this is complete rather than a sample.
What this list tells you
- Missouri has 2 entries in this table. Whether that is the whole story depends on the coverage note, which says so plainly.
- Not finding your town here is good news. Missouri's list is complete, so a missing name means no local income tax at all. Compare that with a site that simply has no data and shows you nothing.
- Everywhere listed in Missouri charges the same, about 1%. No need to work out which side of a boundary you live on.
- 2 different sources feed the Missouri table. Each one is named underneath, with the date we last checked it, so you can follow any number back to where it came from.
- This dataset holds 2 Missouri jurisdictions. Whether that constitutes complete coverage is a separate question from how many rows there are, and the note below answers it explicitly instead of letting row count stand in for completeness.
- Because Missouri's coverage is exhaustive, this table supports a negative claim as well as a positive one. An unlisted address genuinely owes nothing. That is a stronger statement than "we have no figure for you", and the two are indistinguishable to a reader unless a site says which it is offering.
- Every listed Missouri jurisdiction levies about 1%, so there is no intra-state variation to resolve. That makes the local layer unusually easy to compute correctly — the only question is whether the address falls inside a taxing jurisdiction at all, which the coverage note below settles.
- Provenance for Missouri spans 2 sources. Each is listed with its label, URL and as-of date, because a merged dataset whose citation names only the largest contributor is unverifiable for exactly the rows most likely to be wrong.
What lands in your account
A $75,000 salary
| Take-home, year | $59,005 |
|---|---|
| Tax, year | $15,995 |
| Share of pay taxed | 21.33% |
This is an average rate across all your pay — not the rate on your next dollar.
Where the money goes
A $75,000 salary
- Federal income tax$7,670
- Social Security and Medicare$5,738
- State income tax$2,588
- Yours$59,005
| Federal income tax10.23% | $7,670 |
|---|---|
| Social Security and Medicare7.65% | $5,738 |
| State income tax3.45% | $2,588 |
| Yours78.67% | $59,005 |
Every Missouri jurisdiction
| Jurisdiction | Rate |
|---|---|
| Kansas City | 1% |
| St. Louis | 1% |
Questions people ask
If my town is not on this list, does it charge nothing?
It charges nothing. Coverage for Missouri is complete at 2 listed jurisdictions, including any checked zeroes, so absence is a real answer rather than a gap in the data.
Does this affect most people in the state?
A minority of residents. 2 jurisdictions charge it here, which means state-level comparisons quietly omit a real cost for the people inside them.
Where do these rates come from?
2 published sources, all cited below. No one authority covers every jurisdiction in Missouri, so the table is assembled rather than copied.
What does absence from this table indicate?
Coverage for Missouri is complete: all 2 checked jurisdiction records are included, including any zero-rate entries. Absence from the table therefore indicates no levy rather than missing data. ⚠️ Completeness is asserted against the state's own published list and is re-verified on each data refresh.
How concentrated is local income taxation here?
2 jurisdictions levy locally in Missouri, so exposure is concentrated rather than statewide. ⚠️ State-level effective-rate comparisons exclude local income tax entirely and therefore understate liability for residents of levying jurisdictions.
What is the provenance of this table?
Rates derive from 2 distinct published sources, each cited with its own as-of date. No single authority publishes complete local rate data for Missouri, so the table is compiled; divergent as-of dates across sources are stated rather than harmonised.