House and Senate negotiators plunged into unresolved tax issues Saturday to craft a special sales tax exemption for purchases of posts, wire and other materials needed to replace fencing destroyed in a massive wildfire in southern Kansas.
The sales tax provision was inserted into Senate Bill 149 that already featured a tax break for a Gove County hospital to develop an airport in Quinter for emergency flights and extended for five years to 2022 the state’s “angel investor” tax credit program, which offers transferable state income tax credits of 50 ...