Kansas State Income Tax Burden

For two-parent families of four: $20,900.	11th highest
For single-parent families of three: $19,900.	9th highest
Kansas’ 1999 income tax on working-poor and near-poor families:
For families of four with poverty-line incomes ($17,028): $215 refund.	7th lowest
For families of three with poverty-line incomes ($13,290): $364 refund.	4th lowest (tie)
For families of three or four with minimum-wage earnings ($10,712): $382 refund.	5th lowest (tie)
For families of four with incomes at 125% of the poverty line ($21,285): $24 tax.	12th lowest
For families of three with incomes at 125% of the poverty line ($16,613): $185 refund.	6th lowest
Kansas has recently exempted families with below-poverty earnings from the income tax. In 1991, a family of four owed tax when its income exceeded 93 percent of the poverty line. Kansas’ tax threshold is now 23 percent above the poverty line.