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SB1377 • 2026

Modifies provisions relating to erroneous tax deficiencies

Modifies provisions relating to erroneous tax deficiencies

Taxes
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Trent, Curtis; House handler: N/A
Last action
2026-01-27
Official status
Second Read and Referred S Economic and Workforce Development Committee
Effective date
2026-08-28

Plain English Breakdown

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Modifies provisions relating to erroneous tax deficiencies

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1377 - This act provides that a taxpayer that has paid a deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that is subsequently found to be erroneous, regardless of whether such taxpayer has timely filed a protest with the Director of Revenue, shall be entitled to a refund in the amount of the deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that were paid by the taxpayer.

What This Bill Does

  • The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1377 - This act provides that a taxpayer that has paid a deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that is subsequently found to be erroneous, regardless of whether such taxpayer has timely filed a protest with the Director of Revenue, shall be entitled to a refund in the amount of the deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that were paid by the taxpayer.
  • Such refund shall be paid as provided in current law.
  • This act is identical to a provision in CCS/HCS/SB 994 (2026).
  • JOSH NORBERG

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-27 S244

    Second Read and Referred S Economic and Workforce Development Committee

  2. 2026-01-07 S86

    S First Read

  3. 2025-12-01 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Prefiled

Official Summary Text

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Introduced

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SB 1377 - This act provides that a taxpayer that has paid a deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that is subsequently found to be erroneous, regardless of whether such taxpayer has timely filed a protest with the Director of Revenue, shall be entitled to a refund in the amount of the deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that were paid by the taxpayer. Such refund shall be paid as provided in current law.

This act is identical to a provision in CCS/HCS/SB 994 (2026).
JOSH NORBERG

Current Bill Text

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1377
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR TRENT.
5722S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 143.621, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to erroneous
tax deficiencies.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 143.621, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 143.621, 2
to read as follows:3
143.621. 1. Sixty days after the date on which it was 1
mailed (one hundred fifty days if the taxpayer is outside 2
the United States), a notice of deficiency shall constitute 3
a final assessment of the amount of tax specified together 4
with interest, additions to tax, and penalties except only 5
for such amounts as to which the taxpayer has filed a 6
protest with the director of revenue. 7
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of 8
this section to the contrary, a taxpayer that has paid a 9
deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties 10
attributable to such deficiency that is subsequently found 11
to be erroneous, regardless of whether such taxpayer has 12
timely filed a protest with the director of revenue, shall 13
be entitled to a refund in the amount of the deficiency and 14
any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to 15
such deficiency that were paid by the taxpayer. Such refund 16
shall be paid as provided in sections 143.781 to 143.841. 17
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