Income Tax Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

Are Kansans Preparing For More Tax Increases?0
- Tax & Spending
- February 8, 2019
Kansans have experienced four tax increases in the past four years. Governor Kelly intends to apply a fifth tax increase by denying Kansans the full benefits of federal tax reform. Now the January government tax report shows holiday sales fell by $85 million. Kansans have held back spending for seven straight months. The trend suggests
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2019 Legislator’s Budget Guide: Reversing The Kansas Exodus 0
- Tax & Spending
- January 4, 2019
At the start of the year, Americans always seem resolved to make changes to their lives and routines. For many Kansans, those resolutions apparently mean migration to fast-growing states with governments that spend less, and tax less. This policy proposal is part of the Sandlian Center for Entrepreneurial Government’s 2019 Legislator’s Budget Guide. Find more
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December FY 2019: Kansans Cringe Purchasing for Six Straight Months 0
- Tax & Spending
- January 2, 2019
For six months Kansas sales tax on retail spending has deteriorated. There was no sign of a holiday shopping bump in the state’s tax revenue report. See the November Fiscal Year 2019 Report click here. The Governor’s Budget Office reported state government tax collections for the fiscal year ending in December. Kansas state government collected
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2019 Legislator’s Budget Guide: Taxing Remote Sales & Sports Gambling 0
- Tax & Spending
- December 17, 2018
This policy proposal is part of the Sandlian Center for Entrepreneurial Government’s 2019 Legislator’s Budget Guide. Find more proposals here. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings this year, that authorizes states to legalize sports betting and tax out of state sales, policymakers see opportunities to increase government revenue and support more spending.
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November FY 2019: Sales Tax Stalls For Five Straight Months 0
- Tax & Spending
- December 3, 2018
A well known economic “rule of thumb” is the concept that consumer purchases take up around 70% of the area’s economy. Therefore what does it say for Kansas’s economy if the tax from consumer purchases hasn’t grown for five straight months? The answer? It doesn’t say good things. See the October Fiscal Year 2019 Report
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2019 Legislator’s Budget Guide 0
- Tax & Spending
- November 28, 2018
You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. President Ronald Reagan President Reagan understood the best way government can help people is by providing better service at an affordable cost to the taxpayer. Nearly 30 years later, the Kansas Policy Institute found Kansans still hold
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