U. S. Senator Roger Marshall joined Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson and Senator Caryn Tyson, who is Chair of the Senate Tax Committee, announcing that Kansas will follow President Trump’s No Tax On Tips Initiative. They were joined by several other Kansas State Legislators. Senator Marshall is helping lead the effort in congress to remove tips from taxable income. Marshall says “bringing ‘no tax on tips’ to life will put more money back into hard-working Americans’ pockets and make Kansas affordable again. “President Trump made a promise, and he says he intends to help him deliver and that the ‘no tax on tips’ bill should be common sense policy for anyone looking to support workers and families. Masterson says the Kansas legislation will mirror what Congress ends up doing, and noted tipped income is different than ordinary income.
He says a tip is a thank you for good service and a thank you shouldn’t be subject to tax. This will ease the burden on Kansans employed in the service industry and will also help small businesses that depend on service staff. Senator Tyson says the initiative is part of an overall effort to simplify our tax code and an easy way for Kansas to help out the service workers, saying, it’s a burden on our service workers to try to track their tipped income, and this proposal will simplify their filing.
