Tag: Taxation
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Wichita income is not keeping up
Visioneering Wichita uses per capita income growth as one benchmark of economic progress. What do the numbers say about the city’s progress?
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Change in needed in Wichita
Change is desperately needed in Wichita — change to allow exceptionalism and end failed economic subsidies.
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WichitaLiberty.TV August 11, 2013
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV, host Bob Weeks asks if shoppers have ever paid extra sales tax in Wichita’s Community Improvement Districts, and describes efforts by the city to avoid disclosure of this tax. Then, are there similarities between Wichita and Detroit? Finally, a Sedgwick County Commissioner is worried about agriculture being driven out of…
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Warning signs still missing
Two weeks after the City of Wichita learned that two prominent downtown hotels are not in compliance with city policy regarding signage, the hotels are still in violation.
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So far, no flood of Wichita water rebates
Low utilization of a Wichita rebate program could be good news, if the city acts in the right way.
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Business tax credits more desired than zero tax rates
A Kansas business welfare program is more attractive and valuable than elimination of the Kansas corporate income tax, at least for some influential corporations in Kansas.
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Sedgwick is a red county in a pink state
Sedgwick County is bleeding income.
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Paying taxes, but not quite
A complicated economic development mechanism used in Wichita hides the true business welfare transaction.
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CID signs missing at some Wichita merchants
Not all merchants located in Wichita’s Community Improvement District program are displaying the required signage.
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Kansas bonds downgraded; economic development programs imperiled
Moody’s Investor Service has downgraded the credit rating of a series of bonds that Kansas uses to fund an economic development program. The utility of other programs may be in doubt.
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Part of Kansas tax law has something for everyone
The just-signed Kansas tax bill contains a future provision that, based on recent research, may satisfy everyone.
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Kansas university spending and funding
In response to a small decrease in Kansas university funding in next year’s budget, there’s been a bit of overreaction