Category: Taxation
Cost of tax compliance is high
Cost of complying with federal and state income tax laws and regulations is high.
The ‘tax expenditure’ solution for our national debt
While most critics of government spending focus on entitlements, regular appropriations, and earmarks, there is a category of spending that not many pay much attention to. The spending is called “tax expenditures.” In Kansas some have been calling them “tax appropriations.” It’s a big issue. As economist Martin Feldstein writes in the Wall Street Journal,…
Topeka tax increment financing project struggles
In Topeka, a residential and retail project funded with $5 million of tax increment financing (TIF) is in trouble.
Tax day should bring tax awareness
As a country we spend an enormous effort on tax recordkeeping and compliance.
State taxes and unemployment rates
A few days ago someone left a comment to a post in this blog that argued — I think so, anyway — that low-tax states are not doing well in this economy, with the measure of “wellness” being the state’s unemployment rate. The author provided a link to an article titled Do taxes kill jobs?.…
Taxation: it’s more pervasive than you know
Have you ever thought about how many taxes you are paying when you buy a product or a service? An amount is obvious when a sales tax is tacked on, but is that the only tax included in the price you pay? You know the answer — of course it is not, but the remaining…
Wichita Eagle letter promotes taxes, big government
Today’s Wichita Eagle carries a letter to the editor that, like many we’ve seen before, makes claims and espouses beliefs that are totally opposite to freedom and liberty. In today’s example, Omer C. Belden of Wichita argues that we should “concentrate on saving such successful programs as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.”
Beef checkoff a tax by another name
Jen Rezak of Americans For Prosperity — Kansas explains the Beef Checkoff Program, part of the 1985 farm bill.