State tax cuts come with complications

CREATED Aug. 16, 2012

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback's administration acknowledges that Kansas legislators will have to consider technical changes in a new law cutting income taxes.

 
Department of Revenue spokeswoman Jeannine Koranda says officials are still determining what issues will have to be tackled next year. But she said it's a question of what will go into follow-up legislation, not whether it will be pursued.
 
The issue arose Thursday during a news conference held by critics of the cuts, which lower individual income tax rates for next year and exempts the owners of 191,000 businesses from income taxes.
 
Martin Dickinson, a University of Kansas law professor specializing in tax issues, said parts of the tax law are flawed or unclear and need to be rewritten.