Ever since the pandemic began, St. Louis has been subjecting taxpayers who neither live nor work in the city to legally baseless earnings tax assessments. Forced by litigation and the threat of state preemption to make amends, the city is hoping that taxpayers will not notice or not bother to take advantage of the brief three-month refund filing window that went into effect in the beginning of the month. But eligible taxpayers should not reward this cheap trick — they should go get the money that they are owed.
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