JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The math didn't pan out for a Missouri effort to grant a tax break for fancy calculators.
The House fell significantly short early Thursday of the two-thirds majority that would have been needed to enact the sales tax break for graphing calculators. That came after the Senate had previously voted for the override.
The measure would have added graphing calculators to the items covered by the state's annual back-to-school sales tax holiday. Legislators said schools are increasingly requiring the special calculators for math classes.
Nixon said the tax exemption could have cost the state $200,000 annually. He also objected to a provision about sales tax refunds that the governor said could have cost $4.2 million in state revenues and $5 million in local revenues.
Calculator bill is SB860.