Florissant, MO Local Taxes & Fees: Business Tax Classification (2026)
Key Facts
- Graduated minimum fee
- $50-$250 by employee count
- Set fee example
- Taxicabs $30/year
- Contractor option
- Employee count or gross receipts
- Mid-year startups
- Pay half the annual fee
- Late payment penalty
- 10% first month, 1%/month after
- Administered by
- Director of Finance
Summary
Florissant classifies businesses for its annual license fee two ways under Section 605.347: a graduated minimum fee of $50 to $250 based on employee count, or a specific set fee listed for dozens of named business types, from $30 taxicabs to $250 insurance companies.
Every person engaged in any business, occupation, pursuit, profession or trade or in the keeping or maintaining of any institution, establishment, article, utility or commodity specified in this Section shall procure and pay for a license from the City and such license fees shall be in the respective amounts set out in this Section, except as otherwise provided by this Code or by ordinance. ... any business or occupation not specifically exempted by this Article or other ordinance from graduated minimum annual license fees shall pay a minimum annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) if there were more than eight (8) and fewer than twenty (20) persons regularly employed or associated in such business during the preceding license year; ... two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) if there were one hundred (100) or more persons regularly employed or associated in such business during the preceding license year.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4989395; v43 updated 2026-05-26; through 05-26-2026).
Full Breakdown
347, in Chapter 605's Article XII Fee Schedule, sets the default rule for any business, occupation, pursuit, profession or trade operating in Florissant: pay a minimum annual license fee tied to the number of persons regularly employed or associated with the business in the preceding license year. The bands are $50 for 9 to 19 employees, $75 for 20 to 49, $100 for 50 to 99, and $250 for 100 or more. Alongside that graduated scale, the same Section lists dozens of specific business or occupation categories with their own set fees regardless of headcount, printed as a schedule running from abstract and title companies at $25 a year to drive-in theaters at $650, sign companies at $100 per billboard, taxicabs at $30, and insurance companies at $250.
347(B) to pay based on either employee count or gross receipts from work done in the City. 347(C). 350 exempts a further list of businesses, including ambulances, auctioneers, auto dealers, barbershops, beauty parlors, locally sponsored carnivals, golf courses, nursing homes, skating rinks and theaters, from the graduated headcount fee entirely, since those categories already carry their own set fee in the schedule. All licenses are administered by the Director of Finance under Article I of Chapter 605, due by January 31 each year.
Violations & Fines
Unpaid or unlicensed operation is enforced through Chapter 605's general licensing duty in Section 605.003 and the Chapter 100 general penalty in Section 100.080, fines up to $1,000 or up to three months in jail. A late license payment separately draws a 10% penalty for the first month plus 1% per month after that under Section 605.025.
Frequently Asked Questions
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