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Missouri · tax year 2026

Does Missouri tax tips and overtime?

Neither deduction reduces your state tax.

Missouri taxes federal AGI at eight graduated rates topping out at 4.7%, after the federal standard deduction, which it adopts as its own. Neither federal deduction reduces Missouri tax. Missouri also lets you deduct part of the federal income tax you pay — 35% of it at low incomes, tapering to nothing above $125,000 — and because that deduction follows your federal bill, claiming the tips or overtime deduction shrinks it and raises your Missouri tax by a few dollars.

What it means on a real paycheck

Take a single filer earning $50,000 a year, $8,000 of it in tips. Against the same person with no tips to declare, the federal deduction is worth $960.

In Missouri it costs you $11 back, because the state lets you deduct the federal tax you pay and you are now paying less of it. You still come out $949 ahead, just by less than the headline suggests.

How Missouri works out the tax

Missouri charges nothing at all on the first $1,348, then 2% rising to 4.7%, after a standard deduction of $16,100 single or $32,200 filing jointly. It begins from your federal adjusted gross income and applies its own reliefs from there.

Worth knowing about Missouri

You can deduct the federal tax you paid

This state lets you subtract part of your federal income tax bill — 35% of it at lower incomes, tapering away as you earn more. Because it follows the federal tax you actually pay, anything that cuts that bill shrinks this deduction too.

Your own numbers

Your gross pay before any taxes or deductions.

Married filing separately cannot claim these deductions at all, so it is not offered here.

Traditional, pre-tax. Lowers income tax but not Social Security or Medicare.

Pre-tax cafeteria-plan premiums. These lower income tax and FICA.

Take-home pay per paycheck (26 per year)

$1,925

$50,057 a year after taxes and deductions.

Missouri taxes federal AGI at eight graduated rates topping out at 4.7%, after the federal standard deduction, which it adopts as its own. Neither federal deduction reduces Missouri tax. Missouri also lets you deduct part of the federal income tax you pay — 35% of it at low incomes, tapering to nothing above $125,000 — and because that deduction follows your federal bill, claiming the tips or overtime deduction shrinks it and raises your Missouri tax by a few dollars. See what that costs you →

Where the money goes each year

Gross salary$62,000
Federal income taxTop rate applied: 12%−$5,260
Social Security−$3,844
Medicare−$899
State income tax (MO)Graduated brackets on $45,111 of state taxable income−$1,940
Take-home pay$50,057

Per paycheck

Gross$2,385
Taxes withheld−$459
Net$1,925

Estimate for tax year 2026 assuming the standard deduction, no dependents or credits, and even pay across the year. Your employer withholds using your Form W-4, so an individual paycheck can differ. Effective total tax rate: 19.26%. Not tax advice.

Where these figures come from

Missouri’s rates and reliefs here were taken from Missouri’s own publication and last checked on 2026-08-01. A state appears in this calculator only once its figures have been read off that state’s own paperwork and covered by tests — never estimated, and never copied from another site.

Figures on this page are for tax year 2026 and were last checked against the primary sources on 2026-07-31. See our sources. This is an estimate, not tax advice.

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