Lawrence Journal-World: Kansas has ninth most regressive tax code
media mentionLower-income people in Kansas are taxed at more than twice the rate as upper-income people, according to a new report released Wednesday.
The fifth edition of the “Who Pays?” study from two think tanks, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and the Kansas Center for Economic Growth, says the poorest 20 percent of people in Kansas will pay, on average, 11.1 percent of their income in state and local taxes in 2015, compared with a 3.6-percent tax rate for the wealthiest 1 percent.