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Our transparency site, KansasOpenGov.org, provides hundreds of downloadable reports showing how your tax dollars are spent. The information all comes from government, either through Open Records requests or from published government reports. Links to the most popular reports are listed below. Each report can also be shared directly to Twitter and Facebook.

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