President’s Message: Making the Case for Tax Equity
Moments before the bill signing ceremony held recently at our State Capital building, where Governor Laura Kelly signed Senate Bill 15 (economic recovery & tax equity) into law, I asked myself the following question: What was the overarching factor that led to achieving state-level tax equity for Kansas banks and their rural/agricultural borrowers? The answer to that question came to me when I witnessed KBA Chairman Jonathon Johnson and other Kansas bankers in attendance interact with Governor Kelly, State Treasurer Lynn Rogers and Republican legislative leaders, including Senate President Ty Masterson, Senate Financial Institutions Chairman Jeff Longbine and House Financial Institutions Chairman Jim Kelly, to name a few. In that brief moment,
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