The state circuit breaker is separate from the County freeze

St. Louis County seniors can run into two similar-sounding tax relief paths. One is the County’s senior property tax freeze. The other is Missouri’s state Property Tax Credit, often called the circuit breaker.

The Missouri Department of Revenue says the Property Tax Credit gives certain senior citizens and 100 percent disabled individuals a credit for part of the real estate tax or rent paid for the year. The County Assessor points residents to that state program as a separate relief source.

That split is the reader job: do not send every senior-tax question to one office. Use St. Louis County pages for county-administered real-estate relief, and use the Missouri Department of Revenue for the state Property Tax Credit form, qualifications, and filing details.