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WaterFire is back on September 18th. Designed by award-winning artist Barnaby Evans, WaterFire Kansas City is a unique, multi-sensory experience of music, fire and water. The moving art installation features more than 55 floating bonfires on Brush Creek.

When is WaterFire 2010?

Saturday, September 18 (rain date: Oct. 2)
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The Annual Summer District Restaurant Week 2010 starts on August 20th. Enjoy $10 lunch menus and $25-30 dinner menus from a variety of restaurants in the Kansas City Power & Light District during the annual summer District Restaurant Week! Plus, get a $5 gift card or a $10 gift card back to the restaurant you dine at when you purchase a Restaurant Week menu item! These exceptional menus are only available for a short time and only available in the KC Power & Light District! Dine Downtown!

When is District Restaurant Week 2010?

August 20th – August 29th

Where is District Restaurant Week 2010?

Power & Light District

District Restaurant Week Participating Restaurants

Please contact the restaurants for more information about their Restaurant Week specials or to make reservations.

801 Steak and Chop House (Dinner only)
(816) 994-8800
71 E. 14th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105

Bristol Seafood Grill
(816) 448-6007
51 E. 14th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105

Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que
(816) 471-3700
131 E. 14th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105

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Section 144.049, RSMo, establishes a sales tax holiday during a three-day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the first Friday in August and ending at midnight on the Sunday following. Certain back to school purchases, such as clothing, school supplies, computers, and other items as defined by the statute, are exempt from sales tax for this time period only. The sales tax holiday applies to state and local sales taxes when a local jurisdiction chooses to participate in the holiday. However, local jurisdictions can choose to not participate in the holiday.

The sales tax exemption is limited to:

• Clothing – any article having a taxable value of $100 or less
• School supplies – not to exceed $50 per purchase
• Computer software – taxable value of $350 or less
• Personal computers – not to exceed $3,500
• Computer peripheral devices – not to exceed $3,500

Qualifying Items

Section 144.049, RSMo, defines items exempt during the sales tax holiday as:

“Clothing” - any article of wearing apparel, including footwear, intended to be worn on or about the human body. The term shall include but not be limited to cloth and other material used to make school uniforms or other school clothing. Items normally sold in pairs shall not be separated to qualify for the exemption. The term shall not include watches, watchbands, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands, or belt buckles.

“School supplies” - any item normally used by students in a standard classroom for educational purposes, including but not limited to, textbooks, notebooks, paper, writing instruments, crayons, art supplies, rulers, book bags, backpacks, handheld calculators, chalk, maps, and globes. The term shall not include watches, radios, CD players, headphones, sporting equipment, portable or desktop telephones, copiers or other office equipment, furniture, or fixtures. School supplies shall also include computer software having a taxable value of three hundred fifty dollars or less.

“Personal computers” – a laptop, desktop, or tower computer system which consists of a central processing unit, random access memory, a storage drive, a display monitor, and a keyboard and devices designed for use in conjunction with a personal computer, such as a disk drive, memory module, compact disk drive, daughterboard, digitalizer, microphone, modem, motherboard, mouse, multimedia speaker, printer, scanner, single-user hardware, single-user operating system, soundcard, or video card.

When is Missouri Back to School Sales Tax Holiday?

MO sales tax holiday is a three-day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the first Friday in August and ending at midnight on the Sunday following.

Do on-line purchases qualify for the Missouri sales tax holiday?

A “qualified” on-line purchase where Missouri retail sales tax rate is charged for a “sale at retail” does qualify for the sales tax holiday.  However, a vendors use tax purchase made from an out of state company into Missouri where use tax is charged does not qualify for the sales tax holiday.

Title: Back to School Sales Tax Holiday
Location: Missouri
Start Date: 2010-08-06
Start Time: 12:01
End Date: 2010-08-08
End Time: Midnight

For questions regarding the Back to School Sales Tax Holiday, email salesuse@dor.mo.gov or visit dor.mo.gov/tax/business/sales/taxholiday/school/.