Property Tax Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

2022 payroll and overtime for Kansas’s largest cities and counties 0
- Tax & Spending
- March 10, 2023
2022 payroll and overtime for some of the largest cities and counties in Kansas are available on kansasopengov.org. This information was collected via Kansas Open Records Requests since January 2023. Overland Park is currently missing from the database because the city has still not complied with an Open Records request that is more than six
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Kansas keeps getting duped by economic development schemes 0
- Tax & Spending
- November 9, 2022
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Kansas elected officials keep getting duped by economic development schemes, with politicians of both parties willing to give out hundreds of millions of dollars with poor oversight. Wichita and Coffey County are currently competing for a megaproject by Integra Technologies, with details about
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Miller / Amyx property tax plan busts the budget in its first full year 0
- Tax & Spending
- September 27, 2022
Reps. Vic Miller, D-Topeka, and Mike Amyx, D-Lawrence, are proposing a constitutional amendment and statutory changes that will make the state general fund go bust in its first full year. It's good to see these legislators admit that property taxes are too high, and we're all for tax relief. But it must be done byREAD MORE

Many counties withhold information on property tax hearings 0
- Tax & Spending
- August 8, 2022
With just 12 days to go before the revenue-neutral rate property tax hearings will begin, over half of the taxing entities that have responded to KORA requests from Kansas Policy Institute are not raising property taxes this year. But as of today, 61 counties have not provided information in response to our Open Records requests
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Panasonic subsidy deal: Laura Kelly’s ‘shot of adrenaline’ moment?0
- Tax & Spending
- July 13, 2022
Remember the (well-deserved) beating Gov. Sam Brownback received for saying his 2012 tax cuts would be a ‘shot of adrenaline’ to the Kansas economy? Now, Gov. Laura Kelly may have her own ‘shot of 'adrenaline' moment by claiming her $1 billion+ subsidy to Panasonic will transform the Kansas economy. The 2012 tax cuts would haveREAD MORE
2022 Green Book: Spend Less, Tax Less, Grow More 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 31, 2022
Over the past year, legislators have painted a picture of Kansas as a booming economy, pointing to subsidized business development and continually high tax revenues – more a sign of over-taxation than prosperity – as indicators of growth. However, the data about Kansas’s economic performance relative to taxation in our 2022 Green Book tells a
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