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Monday, December 11, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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--taxes from Dec. 20 to Jan. 16.
► Permitting the taxpayers who protest their taxes to pay one quarter of their taxes by the deadline, instead of the one-half formerly required. A second quarter payment would be due March 20 and the rest on June 20.
► Reopening the local appeals process to allow taxpayers to protest the reappraised values of their properties.
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$83 million relief proposal. Sixty-four representatives voted for the measure, although copies were not available and few of them had read it.
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State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said the bill created an entitlement program that would oblige the state to provide relief to everyone who qualified, even if the cost exceeded the $93 million estimate.
"We don't know the cost of this," Bogina said. "It could be $82 million or $123 million."
"I think it' s a lot more cruel to be receptive and dishonest than to tell people the cruel facts of life," he said.
Bogina adjourned the committee without voting, effectively killing the bill. Another Senate committee began drafting a tax-relient bill for the Legislature to consider during the regular session, which begins Jan. 8.
"I think common sense prevails here today — that you don't do things of this magnitude in 24 or 36 or 48," said State Sen. Jim Allen, R-Ill.
State Sen. Fred Gaines, D-Augusta, said legislative actions that reopened the tax appeals process and extended the deadline for tax-payments would ease the state's tax problems.
Gaines said killing the bill was the only way to prevent raising false hoops of tax relief.
*Extending the deadline for paying taxes from Dec. 20 to Jan. 16.*
"I'm wondering if by the time we come up here in January a lot of these problems will have solved themselves," Gaines said.
Winter said the Legislature could not implement tax relief during the war.
Among measures approved by the Legislature are:
"We can't solve the problems of two decades in two days," Winter said. "We're all here to try and find a solution, but this bill is not a solution. It's a smoke screen. I think it perpetuates a fraud on those people who expected some relief."
- Reducing the annual interest rate on late taxes from 18 percent to 12 percent.
- Authorizing local governments to reconsider their budgets and lower property tax rates.
Winter cited a survey by the Douglas County appraiser of 45 businesses in the county, which revealed that property taxes declined for 21 of them. Of the 24 that faced tax increases, the House bill would assist only five, paying 5.9 percent of their total tax increase of $216,757. At least one of those businesses would pay more for the bill's excise tax on inventory than it would receive in tax relief.
"I really thought this bill was a disaster." Winter said.
"Once you begin down that path of dismantling the program, it will have a more complex structure."
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, agreed that the session was too hurried. But she said she wanted the Senate to revise the House bill and keep it alive.
"I'm disappointed that we could not get a circuit breaker passed," she said, referring to the name used by legislators for the tax-relief proposal.
to strip $25 million from the state highway program would ripple through the program, possibly crippling the state's ability to sell highway bonds. If that happened, Edwards said, the entire program would die.
Several of the bill's other financing methods were blasted by committee members and witnesses.
Bud Grant, a lobbyist for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that placing a 2 percent excise on inventories was nothing more than another property tax.
State Sen. Paul Feleciano Jr., D-Wichita, agreed with Edwards.
"I think if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck, and by gosh this is a property tax," he said. "The reason we're here is because there's a tax problem in this state. So far, the solutions we've talked about are raising taxes."
Horace Edwards, secretary of transportation, said that a provision
Returning utility inventories, such as coal piles and natural gas stored underground, to the property tax roles.
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had with the case, in light of the fact that a Black man and a white woman were arrested." Green said.
Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, said that Johnson's joke served as a reminder that racism was widespread.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism,
"It indicates a tolerance of racism," Adams said. "Some marvelous people, as measured by their ability, are just messed up by this problem that can't go away in a generation or two."
said that the disclosure was justified.
"Reporters have a duty to inform the public of any manifestation of racism," Kautsch said.
> The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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