Property Taxes

Beginning in 2014, Kansas will no longer have a motor carrier property tax.  The tax has applied to for-hire motor carriers operating in Kansas (regardless whether the motor carrier is actually based in the state) since 1956 as an ad valorem tax on the value of their rolling stock.  The new law, which was signed by the Kansas governor on April 6, does impose an additional registration fee on intrastate and interstate carriers operating in Kansas.  Unlike the repealed tax, however, the registration fee will apply equally to both for-hire and private carriers.