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Published August 19, 2007 11:40 pm - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Early one August morning 144 years ago, Missourian William Quantrill and hundreds of armed men descended on Lawrence, Kan., killing almost 150 residents and causing $2 million in damage to their homes and businesses.

Missouri: Tax hike raising ire in Kansas



The Associated Press

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Early one August morning 144 years ago, Missourian William Quantrill and hundreds of armed men descended on Lawrence, Kan., killing almost 150 residents and causing $2 million in damage to their homes and businesses.

Relations between Missourians and Kansans never have entirely recovered, although their rivalries these days typically are settled with college footballs and basketballs.

Perhaps that history of bad blood helps explain why some Kansans are hopping mad about a new affront from Missouri — one that could siphon several million dollars out of the Kansas treasury into Missouri’s.

For years, Missouri has allowed people who live elsewhere but work in Missouri to deduct the property taxes they pay on their out-of-state homes when they itemize their Missouri income taxes — just as Missouri residents can itemize deductions for their own property taxes.

Kansas has a similar tax policy. So do five of the seven other states neighboring Missouri or Kansas that charge income taxes.

But a new Missouri law will halt that nonresident tax break next year, meaning Kansans who commute to work in places like Kansas City, Mo., Joplin and St. Joseph will pay higher income taxes to Missouri. The same will hold true for residents of other states who work in Missouri.

Kansas officials are outraged.

Missourians “have created another border skirmish over here, which we don’t need,” said Kansas Revenue Secretary Joan Wagnon.

Kansas Rep. Kenny Wilk, chairman of the House Taxation Committee, is vowing a tax retaliation unless Missouri backs down.

“Missouri just needs to decide whether they want to do this the hard way or the easy way,” said Wilk, who lives in Lansing but works in Kansas City, Mo. “We will respond to make sure we recoup all — and plus a bit more — of what we’re losing.”

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has asked Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt to call upon lawmakers to repeal the nonresident tax increase.

Blunt said he will support a repeal next year. But he did not include it on the agenda for a special legislative session, which ironically is getting under way right around the anniversary of the infamous Aug. 21, 1863, Quantrill raid.

Missouri’s governor explains that special sessions should be reserved for issues on which there is a consensus among lawmakers. In this case, some of the Missouri senators who amended the tax increase onto one of Blunt’s priority bills see no reason to reverse it.

“What obligation do we have to Kansas people? Why would we want to give them a break on Missouri taxes?” declared Sen. Joan Bray, a Democrat from St. Louis.



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