Today kicks off the first day for Missouri’s Sales Tax Holiday

Today marks the first day for Missouri’s Sales Tax Holiday. What it boils down to is purchases for Back to School Items such as clothes, supplies, computers and software will all be exempt of the typical state sales tax of a little over four percent. The holiday will run through Sunday.

This will be the 5th time the Show me state has participated in the holiday although nearly 200 cities and over 50 counties have decided not to participate in the event.

Click here to see what cities are Not Participating

Click here to see what counties are Not Participating

Frequently Asked Questions about Tax Free Holiday

CityBlogUSA Opens Missouri Blogging Network

Phoenix, AZ, January 21, 2008. CityBlogUSA, a division of the e-Partner National Relocation and Brokerage Services Network announced that effective Monday, January 21, 2008, it would begin to market the CityBlog Resident blogging network for Missouri cities to real estate agents.

The Company launched the BETA version of CityBlogUSA in July and has been test marketing positions in selective markets in its 50-State, 25,000+ cities network to real estate agents on an exclusive basis.

Company Vice President, Robert Barringer said, “we created CityBlog with the idea that consumers want to blog about their favorite cities or hometown and to directly post information about lifestyles, real estate, jobs, health care, schools and even politics from an insider’s perspective.”

“CityBlog Missouri allows residents, businesses and real estate industry professionals to open up the local information portals for those seeking to relocate and for those residents who want to post alternative information that the newspapers, TV and magazines aren’t reporting…after all, who knows more about a community than the people who live there?”, said Barringer.

Agents can “Stake a Claim” to their city as its “Real Estate and Relocation Specialist” and hold that position exclusively, interact by posting blogs, talk about real estate and any other local issues they would like to include in the blog.

Barringer said, “The most powerful thing about CityBlog is that any resident can become an author…we are just setting up a network and trying to sell ad space…we believe in the consumer-centricity of the economy, especially when it comes to real estate and local lifestyles.”

People can blog Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia, Lees Summit, St. Peters, St. Louis, Independence, Florissant, St. Joseph, and any other city and have the same blogging experience. You can jump to any Missouri city and be blogging in minutes by going to www.MissouriBlogPage.com, this very site.

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