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Friday, September 18, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
State/Local
Kansans may not get all of tax windfall Hayden also remains disappointed about failed special highway session
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden acknowledged yesterday he may not be able to achieve his goal of returning all of an income tax windfall to taxpayers, but said he will recommend that all taxpayers benefit from whatever can be returned.
"The opportunity to return all of the windfall is probably very remote in the coming fiscal year." Hayden told a news conference in his Capitol office. "I have said I prefer to give back part or all of the windfall, and I (still) hope I'll be in position to return all or part of the windfall."
Kansas will collect an estimated $120 million additional income tax revenue in the current tax year and $145 million in tax year 1988 as a result of the 1986 federal tax reform laws.
The state realized the extra revenue because taxpayers had their federal tax liability reduced under the 1986 changes. By not paying so much federal tax, they have less to deduct from their
taxable state income, and that increases their Kansas tax liability.
It was Hayden's first news conference since Sept. 5, when a special legislative session he called to consider a highway improvement initiative collapsed with nothing accomplished.
Questions about what Hayden plans to do with the income tax windfall and his feelings nearly two weeks later about the special session's failure dominated the news conference, after Hayden had opened his meeting with reporters by announcing appointment of a new state travel and tourism commission.
It was evident Hayden's disappointment over the special session had not dissipated. He still blamed House Democrats for the failure but said the six-day session had one positive effect: it provided legislators more information about the state's highway problems than they had ever had.
have as little as $7 million in new money from tax revenues to build into the Fiscal Year 1989 budget he will recommend to the 1988 Legislature in January, unless the state keeps a large portion of the income tax windfall.
State fiscal experts have projected Hayden may
And, the governor is under pressure to pump in more money for education, social programs and the state's effort to land the Superconducting Super Collider.
Hayden said the Tax Reform Task Force he appointed last spring is studying the issue of state tax reform and will recommend to him later this year much of the windfall can be returned to taxpayers.
He also said he would like to see a $160 million general fund balance at the end of FY 1989. Projections show that to accomplish that, the state either has to keep all the windfall or limit spending drastically.
Flory to conduct inquisition in woman's death
District Attorney Jim Flory will conduct an inquisition as a part of his investigation into the death of a Lawrence woman.
By a Kansan reporter
On Sept. 9, police found the decomposed body of 32-year-old Judy Kemp in a box in a shed adjacent to her trailer home at 101 Michigan St.
The discovery came after the woman's husband, 40-year-old Carl Kemp, called the police requesting that the man be taken to Police said the woman had been dead
for about a week.
Carl Kemp was charged last week with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, but his six-day hospital stay for low blood pressure delayed the legal process, Flory said.
Flory said an inquisition is only to further the investigation of the case. He requested the inquisition from Judge Michael Malone to obtain documents and records and sworn testimony of witnesses.
Although witnesses usually are not
subpoenaed for inquisition, the district attorney may call some in, Flory said.
Douglas County Coroner Alan Sanders said he had not established a cause of death, but said he thought a special forensic pathologist would be called in as a witness.
Meanwhile, Carl Kemp appeared in Douglas County District Court yesterday morning. He was held for a court hearing after Douglas County jail yesterday afternoon.
A preliminary hearing is set for
9:30 a.m. Monday before district Judge Ralph King.
Second-degree murder is a class B felony. If convicted, Carl Kemp could face a minimum of five to 15 years maximum of 20 years to life in prison.
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