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Shoppers are already out buying holiday gifts.

For the first time, the National Retail Federation expects holiday sales in 2025 to surpass $1 trillion. Holiday sales alone would bring in millions of dollars in sales tax revenue nationwide, but those funds are sometimes overlooked.

The money from sales taxes in Kansas City, Missouri, have a big impact in the city's historic Northeast neighborhood.

Shoppers in Kansas City, Missouri, pay more than $100 million in sales taxes every year. A small part of that sales tax goes to the Central City Economic Development (CCED) sales tax program.

CCED program administrator Sherise Kirkwood oversees the program.

"I see what the tax dollars is going toward," Kirkwood said. "It is my job to be a steward for the t

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