Brownback's Plan Ends Home Property Tax Deduction
Associated Press - Wed 07:36 PM 01/23/2013
Governor Sam Brownback is proposing to eliminate an income tax deduction for the property taxes paid by home owners.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is proposing to eliminate an income tax deduction for the property taxes paid by home owners.
Legislators in both parties said Wednesday they were surprised to learn that the conservative Republican governor's proposals included eliminating the income tax deduction for property taxes. They said they didn't know it was a part of the plan until the Senate Ways and Means Committee agreed to sponsor Brownback's tax plan.
The governor mentioned the proposal briefly in documents his office released last week but didn't talk about it in his State of the State address. The governor also proposes to eliminate a popular income tax deduction for interest paid on home mortgages.
Brownback's plan also would set up automatic cuts in individual income tax rates in the future.
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raidernut
Wednesday 23 January 2013 19:47 Report this comment
Bend over, lube up, no one is safe...billfold gets more empty by the second. But as long as people can sit on their keesters and get a free ride, what the hell...
grnthums
Wednesday 23 January 2013 21:50 Report this comment
RE: raidernut. WTF?
iamgonnagetu.3
Thursday 24 January 2013 00:32 Report this comment
Brownback needs to be recalled.
koniginb71
Thursday 24 January 2013 06:15 Report this comment
oh so this is how he is going to pay for all those business tax cuts, so subchapter s corps...the ones that "create" jobs....yeah right....welcome to less money in our pockets....another hit on the middle working class.....the rich get richer on the backs of the middle class....Sammy needs to be recalled.
tbone02b
Thursday 24 January 2013 10:57 Report this comment
He didn't mention it in his speech for a reason. How grandeous are his plans to remove from we the people those programs that encouage home ownership and job creation. Removing always sounds great if it involves not paying. The problem is we all pay somewhere else.
Mookie
Thursday 24 January 2013 11:05 Report this comment
I wonder if individuals who do not own homes are paying extra income taxes. Young people cannot afford to buy their dream homes if they are continuously paying extra income taxes while homeowners can easily afford to purchase luxury toys (cars and boats), food (exotic cruises), beverages (Starbuck coffee and microbrew), vacations and others. Gladly, I am not residing in Kansas….
DamiStac
Thursday 24 January 2013 12:11 Report this comment
Perhaps we young people who have purchased homes did so by being responsible and saving the few dollars we could each month and by not buying our dream home but instead buying a foreclosure fixer upper. I as a home owner don't have money for any of the luxuries you mentioned.