About This Educational Guide
Our position, and how we try to separate it from the facts
Our Position
The Kansas Property Tax Freedom Coalition's position is that property taxes should be eliminated in Kansas entirely — not reduced, capped, or restructured. This guide doesn't ask you to adopt that position before reading it. It explains how the system works, what other states have tried (including approaches that stop short of full elimination), what complete elimination would actually require, and what it would mean for schools, local governments, and different groups of Kansans — using government records and cited sources throughout, so you can reach your own conclusion.
Purpose
The purpose of this resource is to help Kansans understand the structure, administration, fiscal effects, and potential reform of property taxation in Kansas — well enough to reach their own conclusions, whether or not those conclusions match ours.
Editorial Approach
We try to distinguish, throughout this guide, between:
- Facts — information drawn from government records, statutes, fiscal notes, academic research, or other identified sources.
- Analysis — conclusions or comparisons we draw from those facts. When we do this, we label it as "Coalition analysis" rather than presenting it as something the underlying sources themselves concluded.
- Proposals — policies that have been proposed elsewhere or discussed publicly. Including a proposal here doesn't mean we endorse it; where a proposal comes from an outside group rather than a government, we say so explicitly.
- Estimates — we label every calculation as an official government/agency estimate, a Coalition calculation, or an illustrative/hypothetical scenario, so it's clear which is which.
Sources
Priority is given to primary government and legislative sources where available. See Sources for the full list, organized by which page each source supports and tiered by source type.
Currency
Legislative information is dated because bills, proposals, and fiscal estimates change from session to session. This guide reflects publicly available records as of September 2026; verify current status directly with the relevant government agency or legislative record before republishing or citing specific figures.
Corrections
If you find a factual error, let us know and we'll review and correct it.
Policy Viewpoints
Where reasonable disagreement exists about a policy question, we try to identify the principal arguments and evidence on different sides — even when we have our own position on the underlying question, as we do on property tax elimination itself.