Sources

Where every fact and figure in this guide comes from

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Sources are grouped to match this guide's pages. All links were live and accurate as of September 2026 — bill statuses, vote counts, and proposed figures should be re-verified against current legislative records before republishing, since sessions and proposals change year to year. Last verified: September 2026. Next scheduled review: before the 2027 Kansas legislative session. The one exception is Other Proposed Frameworks, whose single source is an outside advocacy group, not a government or research source — see that page for how it's handled.

How sources are tiered: within each page's list below, sources are grouped as Primary (government agencies, legislatures, official statistics, fiscal notes), Research (universities, the Federal Reserve, established research organizations), Policy/Advocacy (think tanks and interest groups with a stated point of view), Journalism (news reporting), and Commercial/Reference (calculators and reference sites). We give priority to primary sources for important factual claims wherever one is available.

Kansas Counties

The county pages show total real and personal property tax levied per county for every year from 1985 through 2024, assembled from KDOR's annual reports:

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Figures are "preliminary" as published by KDOR and are not adjusted for inflation. A few counties show a very large single-year jump (Republic County's 2024 figure, for example, is nearly triple its 2023 figure); these reflect what KDOR published and usually indicate a major new taxable property being added to the rolls.

How Property Tax Works

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The History of Property Tax in Kansas

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Research:

  • Kansas Historical Society — Wyandotte Constitution
  • Nancy Ogle, "Kansas Property Classification and Reappraisal: The 1986 Constitutional Amendment and Statutory Modifications," 29 Washburn L.J. 26 (1989) — cited in the Constitution's own historical note; confirms the 1985/1986 amendment is the one that created today's real-property subclass system

Is Kansas Property Tax Constitutional?

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The Path to Repeal

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How Other States Have Tried This

Tier noted in parentheses after each source.

North Dakota:

Texas:

Wyoming:

Pennsylvania and Florida:

California (an additional case study, not from the coalition's original draft):

The Replacement Revenue Math

Other Ways to Fund Repeal

Sovereign wealth fund / dedicated trust fund — Primary:

Sovereign wealth fund — Journalism / Research / Commercial:

Land value tax / split-rate — Research:

Phased homestead exemption growth: see the Florida and Texas sources under How Other States Have Tried This, above.

Amendment Language & Legislative Mechanics

Property Tax Relief Programs You Can Use Now

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How to Appeal Your Valuation

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Other Proposed Frameworks

Policy/Advocacy (sole source):

  • BlueprintLiberty.com — an outside advocacy group, not affiliated with the coalition and not a government or research source. Presented for awareness only; see that page for the full disclaimer.

Report an error: found something on this site that looks outdated or doesn't match a current government source? Let us know and we'll review and correct it.

A note on methodology: figures describing revenue shares, growth rates, and program costs are drawn directly from the sources listed above. Where a figure is described in the guide as "illustrative" or an "order-of-magnitude" estimate — for example, the rough sales-tax-doubling calculation in The Replacement Revenue Math — that's coalition-produced arithmetic based on the cited revenue-share sources, not a figure taken directly from any single source, and it's labeled as such in the text. See About This Educational Guide for our full editorial approach.

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