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Sep. 3—Preparations to ask Joplin voters next year to renew the three-eighths-cent capital improvements sales tax will be discussed at a Tuesday meeting of the City Council. The tax, first ...
Jul. 30—A proposed property and personal property tax increase that Joplin city officials have committed to public safety purposes will be decided Tuesday by Joplin voters. Voters will be asked ...
Jul. 31—Voters who live in the Summit Ridge subdivision and some on West 32nd Street that were recently annexed into the city limits of Joplin will be able to vote on the city of Joplin's ...
A third office opened in Springfield, Missouri, in July 1948, and a uranium boom led the firm to purchase a tax practice in Grand Junction, Colorado. The 1960s represented a period of significant change. In 1964, the firm drafted its formal partnership agreement, which still exists today.
Joplin began to add cultural amenities; in 1902, residents passed a tax to create a public library, and gained matching funds that enabled them to build the Carnegie Library. It was seen as the symbol of a thriving city. In 1930, the grand commercial Electric Theater was built, one of the many movie palaces of the time.
A tax collector at work – from an illustration by Henry Holiday in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). A tax collector (also called a taxman) is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations on behalf of a government. The term could also be applied to those who audit tax returns or work for a revenue agency.
The meeting was held at Joplin Avenue Coffee Co., 506 Joplin Ave., and drew about 20 residents, most of whom asked questions or made comments about the ... Officials questioned about Joplin tax ...
The Joplin Public Library District was established in 1902 when the citizens of Joplin, Missouri voted for a 10-cent tax to operate a public library. A Carnegie Foundation grant of $40,000 paid for the construction of a library building, with the community's having raised money to provide operating and maintenance funds.