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Industry witnesses urge reauthorizing and removing sunset on aviation tax credit
Summary
Witnesses at the Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development hearing on HB 2464 urged extending (or removing) the sunset on the Kansas aviation jobs tax credit, saying it aids recruitment, supports a high-wage workforce and is tied to measurable program participation increases; the committee closed the hearing with no vote.
The Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development heard testimony on HB 2464, a bill to extend the sunset of the Kansas aviation jobs tax credit. Jason Watkins of Watkins Strategies, speaking for the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce, told the committee the credit helped arrest a long decline in aviation employment and urged extending the sunset by 10 years or eliminating it entirely to provide long-term certainty for major aviation investments. Watkins said the statute contains three credits: an employer tuition-and-training reimbursement credit (up to 50% of that expenditure), a $15,000 one-time employer hiring credit for qualified aviation employees, and an employee income tax credit of up to $5,000 (available over multiple years and carryforward provisions were described in testimony).
