Taxes
When all Kansas taxes are totaled up, the study found that:
The state and local tax rate on the best off one percent of Kansas families with average incomes of $781,000 is 8.0% before accounting for the tax savings from federal itemized deductions. After the federal offset, the effective tax rate is only 5.7%.
The average tax rate on families in the middle of the income distributionthose earning between $27,000 and $44,000 is 10.4% before the federal offset and about the same after, nearly double the effective rate on the best-off one percent.
But the tax rate on the poorest Kansas familiesthose earning less than $14,000 is the highest of all. At 11.5% it is more than double the effective rate on the very wealthy.
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