By Brian R. Hook
January 27, 2010

(KansasReporter) TOPEKA, Kan. –  Kansas House Taxation Committee members delivered another blow to the one cent sales tax increase proposed by Gov. Mark Parkinson.

The committee voted Wednesday 12 to seven, mostly along party lines, not to pass the bill proposed by the governor to close the projected $400 million budget deficit.

“The sales tax would have cost Kansas thousands of jobs,” said Richard Carlson, chairman of the committee, who also voted against the proposed tax increase.

The tax plan is not completely dead. The Republican representative from St. Mary’s noted that the bill could still be introduced on the House or Senate floor by any member.

The state Senate Tax Committee declined a request to bring the tax proposal to the Senate floor earlier this month when no committee members volunteered to introduce the motion.