06/10/2026
🚨 Amendment 5 is on the Missouri ballot August 4 — and the final ballot language makes something very clear:
This amendment is about a lot more than eliminating the income tax.
If passed, Amendment 5 would wipe out TWO constitutional tax protections Missouri voters put in place themselves:
👉 A 2010 voter-approved ban on sales tax for real estate transactions.
👉 A voter-approved ban on adding sales tax to goods or services not already taxed as of January 1, 2015.
Both protections would be gone — and during a five-year window, lawmakers could expand the sales tax WITHOUT A PUBLIC VOTE.
Supporters say this is about eliminating the income tax. But that revenue has to be replaced somehow. Governor Kehoe has promised that healthcare and real estate would be protected — but the actual amendment contains no such guarantee.
There is nothing in the language preventing new taxes on medical care, home sales, repairs, haircuts, or other everyday services.
A "yes" vote gives lawmakers broad new power to rewrite Missouri's tax system — without asking voters first.
A "no" vote keeps these constitutional protections in place.
Know what you're voting on.