Income Tax Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

KS House socks citizens with another tax increase 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 6, 2018
Last year’s retroactive, record-setting tax increase apparently wasn’t enough for the majority of the Kansas House of Representatives. Now they’ve voted to allow another $210 million income tax increase over the next two years on top of the $1.2 billion increase they imposed last year. And that’s a very conservative number; according to Chief Budget
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Kansas legislators might raise taxes again 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 29, 2018
With just a few days left in the 2018 legislative session, Kansans will be hit with yet another tax increase unless the Legislature takes action to prevent it. The Department of Revenue says the state will get a $506 million windfall over the next three years as a result of changes in federal tax law.
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School funding plan requires big tax hike 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 5, 2018
Calculations provided by Kansas Legislative Research (KLRD) show the $525 million House school funding plan would require a $306 million tax increase next year and a $293 million transfer from the highway fund to comply with state law. The following three years would require a $215 million tax increase and another $879 million transferred from
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WestEd cost study has media pushing huge tax hikes 0
- Education, Tax & Spending
- March 17, 2018
Preliminary results of the WestEd cost study on school funding have media and some legislators salivating over the prospect of billions more being poured in Kansas schools, without even passing concern over the devastating tax hikes that would be required. Media’s read on the WestEd cost study says $1.8 billion to $2.1 billion more is
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Kansas Tax Experiment – Not a cautionary tale but lessons to be learned 0
- Tax & Spending
- March 1, 2018
Tax relief opponents have repeatedly pointed to the 2012 Kansas tax experiment as their primary example of why tax cuts do not work. But, other states like North Carolina, Indiana, and Tennessee contemporaneously, and successfully, cut taxes. What was different about the Kansas experience? Kansas has had high taxes and slow growth for fifty years.
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School Funding Ruling May Cause Devastating Tax Hikes 0
- Education
- October 5, 2017
The Kansas Supreme Court’s recent Gannon school funding ruling, if endorsed by legislators, would cause devastating tax hikes on top of record-setting tax increases just passed. The Court cited vast differences between the new money appropriated by the Legislature ($293 million more in FY 2019) and the amount demanded by school districts (at least $1.7
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