UPDATE: Clarifies KHI reference
Kansas officials played a shell game with government reports they used to support a statewide tobacco ban.
In arguing that the state’s 2010 Kansas Indoor Clean Air smoking ban hasn’t hurt business, officials and activists pointed to Kansas Department of Revenue data that showed no decline in revenues.
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September general fund tax collections for Kansas fell $67 million below expectations but $105 million below the previous year’s collections according to data released by the Department of Revenue Wednesday.
The largest decline was in individual income taxes, down $63 million from expectations and $53 million below last year’s collections. Corporate income taxes were down $12 [...]