The Kansas House and Senate went tit-for-tat last week, rebuffing each other’s property tax relief proposals, which have been billed this legislative session as making good on old promises to alleviate Kansans’ residential property tax burdens. When the House voted down a Senate resolution that would have allowed voters to decide on an annual cap on assessed value increases for commercial and residential property, the Senate skipped over scheduled discussion on a House bill seeking to create funding limits for local taxing entities. The two proposals have been in the works for months, if not years, and they were comprehensive enough to promise property tax relief for a wide swath of Kansans. Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican who is running this year for the GOP nomination for governor, urged the House to “put taxpayers first.”
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