NFIB’s state director for Kansas, Dan Murray, said today the state’s leading small business advocacy organization is urging Governor Kelly to sign Senate Bill 22, the state income tax reform bill.
“This is commonsense legislation that needs to pass,” Murray said. “Senate Bill 22 would ease the state income tax burden on small businesses and families and lower the sales tax on food.
“Our current tax structure prevents Kansans from fully benefitting from the historic federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017,” Murray said. “Senate Bill 22 would fix that by allowing Kansans to itemize their state income tax deductions and take a higher deduction on their federal tax returns. That’s important to small business owners because most small business owners pay taxes at the individual rather than the corporate rate. If you reduce the state tax burden on small businesses, you’ll make it easier for them to grow and create jobs.
“Small business is the engine that drives Kansas’s economy,” Murray said. “That’s why we believe Governor Kelly should set partisan politics aside and sign Senate Bill 22 into law.”
