[R.O. 2009 § 620.010; R.O. 2006 § 645.010; Ord. No. 633 § 1, 4-18-1983; Ord. No. 826 § 1, 9-16-1985; Ord. No. 3219 § 1, 9-22-2011]
A. 
Every person, firm or corporation now or hereafter engaged in the business of supplying or furnishing electricity or electrical power in the City as a license or occupational tax, shall pay five percent (5%) of the gross receipts derived from such business within the City except that the collection of the license tax on the gross receipts from residential customers shall be in abatement until reinstated by ordinance. No residential customer or utility shall be held responsible or liable for sums not collected during the period of abatement.
B. 
The gross receipts tax imposed upon electric corporations, including, but not limited to, Ameren Missouri, pursuant to Section 620.010 of this Code shall be maintained at its existing rate of five percent (5%), despite the tariff increase awarded by the PSC to Ameren Missouri effective January 3, 2013.
[Ord. No. 3313 § 1, 2-28-2013]
[R.O. 2009 § 620.020; R.O. 2006 § 645.020; Ord. No. 483 § 1, 1-16-1979]
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business hereinbefore set forth, in the City, is hereby required to file with the City Clerk on or before the last day of each calendar month a sworn statement showing the gross receipts derived from the transaction of such business in the City for the preceding calendar month; and at the same time pay to the City the tax hereinbefore set forth; provided however, that it shall not be necessary to include in such statement nor calculate the tax upon any receipts derived from such service furnished the City or any other governmental unit therein.
[R.O. 2009 § 620.030; R.O. 2006 § 645.030; Ord. No. 27 § 3, 8-17-1959]
The City Clerk and such other person or persons as may be designated by the Mayor from time to time is and are hereby authorized to investigate the corrections and accuracy of the statement so filed, and for that purpose shall have access at all reasonable times to the books, documents, papers and records of any person making such return in order to ascertain the accuracy thereof.
[R.O. 2009 § 620.040; R.O. 2006 § 645.040; Ord. No. 27 § 4, 8-17-1959]
Nothing in this Chapter shall be so construed as to exempt any person, firm or corporation to which this Chapter is applicable from the payment to the City of the tax which the City levies upon the real or personal property belonging to such person, firm or corporation.
[Ord. No. 4350, 6-22-2023]
Pursuant to Section 393.275, RSMo., and other applicable authority, the City shall maintain now and hereinafter, unless otherwise provided by law, the tax rates of its license taxes on the gross receipts of businesses furnishing electricity or electric power, including as imposed and at the rates established pursuant to Section 620.010, as may be amended from time to time, without reduction, notwithstanding any periodic fluctuations in the tariffs or service rates of such utility companies or any notice thereof, including, but not limited to, notice sent under Section 393.275, RSMo.