Income Tax Archives - Page 2 of 5 - Kansas Policy Institute

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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What was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan 0
- Tax & Spending, Tax & Spending Research
- 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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Kansas Job Growth Rank Improves Post-Tax-Relief 0
- Tax & Spending
- September 28, 2017
Kansas job growth rank is still better since the 2012 tax relief effort despite ongoing challenges in oil, agriculture and aerospace according to 2016 data just released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Kansas was ranked #40 among the states for Private Nonfarm job growth between 1998 and 2012 but has moved up to #37
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Tax Cuts and the Kansas Economy 0
- Tax & Spending
- September 23, 2017
Challenges in the Kansas economy over the last few years have often been blamed on tax cuts, but such simplistic arguments are based on a logical fallacy – ‘A’ happened and ‘B’ happened, so ‘A’ caused ‘B’. Attempting to ‘connect the dots’ in this manner may seem sensible (or even convenient for those who prefer
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