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Friday, October 30.1987 / University Daily Kansan
State/Local
Panel's plan would mean no taxes for some Kansans
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Legislators on the Governor's Tax Reform Task Force said yesterday that the panel had created what probably will be a politically popular proposal for overbuying the state's income tax laws.
Although the state would return only $28 million of the $135 million it is expected to receive during the current fiscal year from federal tax reform in 1986, the lawmakers said the proposal has features that should attract support.
The plan would decrease the state's highest income tax rates, drop many low-income Kansans from the tax rolls and, according to its supporters, make filing a tax return easier for residents. The panel will submit the plan to Gov. Mike Hayden for his consideration.
"We tried to design a proposal to put more progressivity in the system, but functionally it failed." Rifles, R.A.函数 City, administration of the House Taxation Committee.
Under the plan, the number of
brackets taxpayers' incomes could fall into would decrease from eight to two. The highest tax rates would decrease from 9 percent to 5.5 percent for married couples filing jointly and to 6.5 percent for individuals.
Also, people whose adjusted gross incomes are less than $5,000 a year would see an average reduction of 96 percent in tax liabilities, and about 105,000 low-income Kansans would be taken off the income tax rolls.
in addition, personal exemptions and standard deductions allowed would increase the amountized burden changed to conform with the federal tax code.
"Politically, I think it will be very well received," said State Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, chairman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee.
State Rep. Joan Wagnon, D-Topea, said she says the proposal builds on other legislation that has been proposed in the past two sessions of the Legislature. Some of its provisions include proposals Democrats have advocated.
"I like the idea of taking 105,000 taxpayers off the rolls," Wagon said. "That's not a Republican or Democratic issue."
Wagonn said she thinks most of the debate over the tax reform package will come when lawmakers consider how much of the windfall should returned to taxpayers and both by state agencies should be spent by state agencies.
Hayden made a pledge during his successful 1986 gubernatorial campaign to get all of the windfall returned, but he has said the state's economic conditions have prevented him from making good on the promise immediately. Keep it up, Hayden, and return more of windfall through changes in the state's corporate income taxes or other taxes.
However, Rolfs said he didn't see the windfall question as much of an obstacle to the plan's enactment.
"Anybody who's taken a close look at the state budget knows we're not out of the state yet," Rofs said.
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