Committee hears bill to end state sales tax on cable, community-antenna television services

The House Committee on Taxation heard House Bill 2013, which would discontinue the state imposition of sales tax on cable, community antenna and other television services.

The bill's reviser said the measure strikes the statutory language in KSA 79-3603 that currently imposes sales tax on those television services. The Department of Revenue told the committee the change would reduce total state revenues by about $84 million in fiscal year 2026, including an estimated $68.9 million loss to the state general fund and about $15.1 million to the State Highway Fund; the department estimated larger impacts in subsequent years.

Reviser Adam Sievers of the Revisor's Office summarized the drafting change as removing the statutory imposition rather than…