TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate has reconsidered its rejection of a bill cutting income and sales taxes and passed the measure.
The Senate approved the bill on a 29-11 vote Wednesday, only two hours after rejecting it on a 20-20 vote. Nine Republicans, including Senate President Steve Morris, of Hugoton, switched their votes.
The bill is dramatically different than Brownback’s plan to overhaul the state’s individual income tax code.
Senators embraced Brownback’s proposals to cut the state’s top individual income tax rates and eliminate income taxes for 191,000 businesses. But they rejected his proposals to eliminate income tax credits and deductions and voted to cut the sales tax from 6.3 percent to 5.7 percent in July 2013.
The Senate also approved, 38-2, a separate property tax relief measure.
