{"id":31612,"date":"2023-11-21T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31612"},"modified":"2023-11-21T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:45:09","slug":"more-city-of-st-louis-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/21\/more-city-of-st-louis-follies\/","title":{"rendered":"More City of St. Louis Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/government-politics\/a-600k-mistake-st-louis-forgot-to-tax-recreational-pot-sales\/article_223aaab0-8735-11ee-98d7-c72f890d93d0.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">A $600K mistake? St. Louis forgot to tax recreational pot sales<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>City officials missed the deadline to begin taxing recreational marijuana sales this fall, leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The city was supposed to start charging a 3% levy in October. But until about a week ago, no one had filed paperwork with the state to turn on the spigot. And now, per state regulations, city officials will have to wait until January.<\/p>\n<p>Early estimates suggest the city could lose between $480,000 and $600,000 to the mistake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Powers That Would Be want to spread this competence to the entirety of St. Louis County.  <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I think this sort of competence is percolating up through all levels of government these days.  And society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $600K mistake? St. Louis forgot to tax recreational pot sales: City officials missed the deadline to begin taxing recreational marijuana sales this fall, leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table. The city was supposed to start charging a 3% levy in October. But until about a week ago, no one had filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31613,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions\/31613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}