Tax Day Is Here: How Late Will The Post Office Be Open?

Important information about Postal Service hours, changes in the tax code, and help available for filers.

If you haven't filed your taxes yet, you have until 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 15, 2013 to do so, or earlier if you plan on using snail mail. In fact, the United States Postal Service has announced that in keeping with what's been done in recent years, post offices in the St. Louis region will not have extended retail hours. "Self-Service Ship and Mail Center" kiosks at Post Office branches in Chesterfield will be available, and as long as a debit or credit card transaction is made before midnight, customers will be in the clear. The agency said customers can also drop their returns in collection boxes located at the main office on Market Street in downtown St. Louis, again before midnight. Filing Questions Those who haven't finished …

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New Sales Taxes Overlap Existing Taxes—We're Charged Double

See what sales tax we pay here in Chesterfield and what it's supposed to be for.

A nearly secret amendment was added to a Missouri House bill for a sales tax in a southeast Missouri county, for library revenue. But the same measure also increases sales tax in the Great Rivers Greenway District for St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County. The reported purpose of this sales tax hike is to fund improvements on the grounds of the Jefferson Expansion Memorial, better known as the Gateway Arch—a federal park. The last-minute amendment was placed on the bill by St. Charles Representative Anne Zerr, a Republican, who was a former member of the Great Rivers Greenway District. Holy Catfish! A Republican trying to sneak a new tax onto a bill—do party leaders know about this? Of course City of St. Louis Mayor Francis …

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