Kansas


Kansas Treats Poor Families Under Its Income Tax Better Than Most Other States

 

Kansas’ 1999 income tax threshold — the income level at which families begin paying income tax:

Ranking among 42 states with income taxes

    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.

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