Glasgow Amount of License Tax ordinance (§ 605.240)
Chapter 605: Business and Occupation Taxes · Article II. Businesses, Trades And Occupations
In short: It's illegal to run listed businesses, trades or professions in Glasgow without first getting a license and paying the tax. Fees range from $1 per hotel guest room to $400, such as $15 for merchants, $25 for beauty shops and barbershops, and $250 or $400 for banks depending on whether capital exceeds $50,000.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
It shall be unlawful for any person to exercise, carry on, or engage in any of the following occupations, professions, trades, businesses, or agencies in the City of Glasgow, Missouri, without first having obtained a license therefor, as herein provided, and having first paid the license tax therefor, as hereinafter provided, and the charge for such license shall be respectively as follows, to wit:
| Auctioneers | $15.00 |
| Automobile agents and/or dealers | $15.00 |
| Automobile garage and/or repair shop | $15.00 |
| Banks, having capital not in excess of $50,000.00 | $250.00 |
| Banks, having capital in excess of $50,000.00 | $400.00 |
| Bed-and-breakfast | $5.00 per guest room |
| Mobile savings and loan association agency | $150.00 |
| Savings and loan agency office | $200.00 |
| Boxing and sparring exhibitions, per day | $10.00 |
| Beauty shops and barbershops | $25.00 |
| Bowling alleys, for the first alley | $10.00 |
| For each additional alley | $5.00 |
| Brokers | $25.00 |
| Butchers, not in connection with a grocery | $25.00 |
| Dance halls, public | $50.00 |
| Dry-cleaning establishments | $15.00 |
| Express company agencies | $25.00 |
| Feed and seed stores, cooperative | $200.00 |
| Feed and seed stores, other than cooperative | $20.00 |
| Fortune-tellers, per day | $5.00 |
| General contracting (plumbers, carpenters, painters, handymen, tree | $25.00 |
| surgeons, electricians, and other persons of similar nature, contracting | |
| for any work as a tradesman) | |
| Hackmen | $5.00 |
| Hawkers | $25.00 |
| Hotels, per guest room | $1.00 |
| Insurance agencies and/or agents, other than life insurance | $40.00 |
| Insurance companies | $10.00 |
| Life insurance agencies and/or agents, resident | $20.00 |
| Life insurance agencies and/or agents, non-resident | $50.00 |
| Life insurance companies | $10.00 |
| Loan agents | $100.00 |
| Lumber mills | N/A |
| Merchants | $15.00 |
| Monument dealers | $15.00 |
| Moving picture shows | $50.00 |
| Operation of coin-operated mechanical amusement devices of a type | $10.00 |
| either designed to produce music of that popularly known as "pinball" | |
| machine, for each machine | |
| Pawnbrokers | $25.00 |
| Peddlers | $25.00 |
| Photographers | $15.00 |
| Plumbers | $25.00 |
| Public boardinghouse | $11.00 |
| Public pool and billiard tables: | |
| For first table | $25.00 |
| For each additional table | $5.00 |
| Real estate agents | $15.00 |
| Restaurants, if beer is sold | $25.00 |
| If beer is not sold | $25.00 |
| Additional fee, rest-bar and package liquor Sunday sales license | $100.00 |
| Stockyards | $50.00 |
Street exhibitions $25.00
Official source: City of Glasgow official Code of Ordinances (online), § 605.240
Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.