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Post‑audit: HPIP data inconsistent; Kansas affordable housing tax credit awarded $73 million but not yet used
Summary
Josh Luthai told lawmakers that HPIP data provided by the Department of Revenue were inconsistent across datasets and could not be reported accurately in a limited‑scope review; KHRC has awarded roughly $73 million in state affordable‑housing tax credits but none had been claimed yet by investors at audit time.
Josh Luthai, an auditor with the Legislative Division of Post Audit, presented a limited‑scope audit on the High Performance Improvement Program (HPIP) and the Kansas Affordable Housing Tax Credit (KAHTC). "We didn't report on the amounts of HPIP credits businesses earned and used because of data limitations," Luthai told the committee.
HPIP: inconsistent tax data
The HPIP program offers state income tax credits for qualifying business training and capital investments. Luthai said the audit team reviewed three CADOR datasets that should track HPIP credits and found conflicting totals for the same tax years — for example, for tax year 2019 one dataset showed businesses earned about $900 million and used about $90 million, while another showed about $230 million earned and $110 million used, and a third showed about $160 million earned and $100 million used. Because the datasets were inconsistent and the review was a limited (100‑hour) engagement, auditors did not attempt a full reconciliation.
CADOR officials told auditors the inconsistencies stemmed from data‑entry errors,…
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