Blue Springs, MO Local Taxes & Fees: Business Tax Classification (2026)

Section 605.010 establishes Chapter 605 as the Business Licensing Code under Article XI of the City Charter and applies it to corporations, partnerships, associations, trustees and individuals engaged in any business, trade, vocation or profession within Blue Springs. It carves out two narrow exemptions: home-based work meeting the Home Occupations definition in Chapter 411 of the Unified Development Code, and professions exempted from municipal license requirements by Sections 71.620 and 71.630, RSMo., such as ministers, teachers, lawyers, physicians and certified public accountants. Section 605.200 supplies a representative, illustrative listing, running from abstracting businesses and accountants through taxidermists, taverns, trucking companies and wine and beer gardens, that the City Council may amend by ordinance; the omission of a specific business type from the list does not exempt it from licensing.

The fee structure in Section 605.160 sets a base charge plus a per-employee charge, computed using the average-employee formulas in Sections 605.180 and 605.190. The Director of Community Development administers the Chapter and, per Section 605.150, may suspend or revoke a license after the Chapter 140 hearing procedure, with the Blue Springs Police Department securing a business that loses its license. Operating without a current, valid license is treated as a nuisance actionable under Chapter 245, Article II, and the City may close the business, immediately if the license was already suspended or revoked, or after a Chapter 140 hearing in other cases, with appeals running through Chapter 536, RSMo.