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Lawmakers target food sales tax, other issues
The 2021 Kansas Legislature plans again to attack the state’s sales tax on food, according to 111th district Rep. Barb Wasinger.
One strategy is to tax out-of-state Internet sales to offset lost sales tax on food, indicated Wasinger, speaking Thursday evening to the Hays City Commission at its regular work session at City Hall.
Wasinger briefed the commissioners on the legislative session, which convenes Monday.
Such a move would bring in about $26 million, said the second-term Republican lawmaker from Hays.
Read more: https://www.hdnews.net/story/news/2021/01/09/kansas-lawmakers-must-fix-food-tax-unemployment-claims-foster-care/6607800002/
(Hays Daily News)