Kansas House Panel Approves Tax Bill

A Kansas House committee has approved a plan
for cutting individual income taxes, reducing taxes for business
owners and keeping a promise to cut the state sales tax next year.
The measure endorsed Monday by the House Taxation Committee is
an alternative to a tax plan proposed by Republican Gov. Sam
Brownback. The committee’s voice vote sends the measure to the
House for debate.
The committee modified a plan drafted by Republican leaders in
the House.
The plan would reduce individual income tax rates for 2013, but
not as aggressively as Brownback had proposed. It would also scale
back an income tax credit for poor workers by more than House GOP
leaders had sought.
The sales tax would drop to 5.7 percent from 6.3 percent in July
2013, as scheduled.