Kan. Senate: Roll back food relief so state can afford flat tax [View all]
TOPEKA Senate President Ty Mastersons broader picture for tax policy changes came into focus Monday with
a plan that involves rolling back tax relief on food so the state can afford to cut income taxes for the highest wage
earners.
The Senate tax committee passed a flat tax plan that would lower the income tax rate for all wage brackets to
4.75% at an estimated cost of about $566 million in the next calendar year. The impact on state revenue would be
lessened by
applying the sales tax on food to just healthy items.
Is this meant to only help those less fortunate? I think the answer is no, Masterson said. Theyre to be helped,
but its to help all Kansans, not just those less fortunate, because the structures there.
The best thing for them is
a job. We cant keep on the train of buying economic development. You have to put a tax structure in place where
those jobs remain. And so that helps everybody.
Mastersons proposal would repeal the
gradual elimination of state sales tax on food, which would reduce annual
revenues by about $450 million when fully implemented on Jan. 1, 2025. Instead, Senate Bill 248 would exempt
select food items from both state and local sales tax, reducing state revenues by about $284 million in the next
fiscal year.
More at link, no paywall.....
https://hayspost.com/posts/65f31844-6f53-4d7b-9a41-bf70c05dedfa
Governor Kelly got a big win with her gradual elimination of the State food tax, time we start asking all our
reQublican friends/neighbors/coworkers "Why does the Kansas Senate want to raise the taxes on food again
right after it was lowered?"
What is healthy vs unhealthy....beer? ice cream? donuts? female products? flowers?
Wish we could turn this State blue, hard to do with the Koch's money floating around.