Section 29 Who Votes

• Library: Tax Law 2009

Section 22(a) of the Hancock Amendment requires “approval of the required majority of the qualified voters of that county or other political subdivision voting thereon” for increases in any tax. Mo. Const. art. X, § 22(a). This language suggests that a ballot proposition must be submitted to all the voters of the political subdivision imposing the charge, even when the charge imposed is exacted from a small segment of the...