Adam Proffitt, the budget director for Gov. Laura Kelly, offered details of the Democratic governor’s proposed $1.1 billion, three-year tax reform bill during a meeting of the Kansas Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
TOPEKA — The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee set aside time Wednesday to scrutinize Gov. Laura Kelly’s tax reform proposal touted by the state budget director as financially sustainable and derided by Republican senators as inferior to a GOP alternative vetoed by the Democratic governor.
There was little prospect Republicans would allow Kelly’s plan for a three-year, $1.1 billion reduction in income, sales and property taxes to receive and up-or-down vote in the House or Senate. Instead, Senate President Ty Masterson and House Speaker Dan Hawkins have been negotiating to deliver two-thirds majorities necessary to override Kelly’s veto of their $1.6 billion tax package, which featured adoption of a single-rate state income tax.