There are multiple enactments of 144.526
Effective - 28 Aug 2008, 2 histories
*144.526. Show Me Green sales tax holiday — sales tax exemption for energy star certified new appliances — political subdivision may allow exemption — retailer exception. — 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Show Me Green Sales Tax Holiday".
2. For purposes of this section, the following terms mean:
(1) "Appliance", clothes washers and dryers, water heaters, trash compactors, dishwashers, conventional ovens, ranges, stoves, air conditioners, furnaces, refrigerators and freezers; and
(2) "Energy star certified", any appliance approved by both the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Energy as eligible to display the energy star label, as amended from time to time.
3. In each year beginning on or after January 1, 2009, there is hereby specifically exempted from state sales tax law all retail sales of any energy star certified new appliance, up to one thousand five hundred dollars per appliance, during a seven-day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on April nineteenth and ending at midnight on April twenty-fifth.
4. A political subdivision may allow the sales tax holiday under this section to apply to its local sales taxes by enacting an ordinance to that effect. Any such political subdivision shall notify the department of revenue not less than forty-five calendar days prior to the beginning date of the sales tax holiday occurring in that year of any such ordinance or order.
5. This section may not apply to any retailer when less than two percent of the retailer's merchandise offered for sale qualifies for the sales tax holiday. The retailer shall offer a sales tax refund in lieu of the sales tax holiday.
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(L. 2008 S.B. 1181, et al.)
*This section was amended by S.B. 153 & 97, 2021. Due to a delayed effective date, both versions are printed here.