{"id":7074,"date":"2012-06-04T16:48:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:02:16","slug":"fallin-income-tax-cut-doomed-by-lobbying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/06\/04\/fallin-income-tax-cut-doomed-by-lobbying\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallin: Income Tax Cut \u2018Doomed\u2019 by Lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4525\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Gov. Mary Fallin\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/fallin-podium.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4525\" title=\"Gov. Mary Fallin\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/fallin-podium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/fallin-podium.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/fallin-podium-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/fallin-podium-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Alex Wong \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Mary Fallin<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Intense special interest lobbying to save hundreds of millions in tax credits, deductions and exemptions derailed efforts to cut Oklahoma\u2019s personal income tax, Gov. Mary Fallin <a href=\"http:\/\/muskogeephoenix.com\/statenews\/x1647294464\/Fallin-Lobbyists-doomed-tax-cut\">tells<\/a> the Associated Press.<\/p><p>Reducing and ultimately eliminating the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/income-tax\/\">income tax<\/a> was a cornerstone of Fallin and Republican lawmakers\u2019 goals for the 2012 legislative session.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By April, Fallin had conceded the plan would not be adopted because of stiff opposition to eliminating dozens of tax credits for businesses and tax deductions for individuals that would supplement the lost revenue. Alternative plans proposed in the weeks before lawmakers adjourned on May 25 were also rejected.<\/p><p>\u201cNot the most productive way to address tax reform,\u201d Fallin said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->Proponents said cutting the income tax \u2014 which amounts for about one-third of revenue for appropriations \u2014 would help Oklahoma\u2019s economy grow, and make the state more attractive for business expansion and relocation. Eliminating tax credits and exemptions would have helped pay for the income tax cut, but lawmakers were \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/25\/three-reasons-oklahomas-income-tax-cut-plan-failed\/\">swayed<\/a>\u201d by lobbying from special interests, Fallin tells the news service.<\/p><p>Fallin said she hopes to work with legislators over the summer to build a better consensus on income tax cuts. Tax cut proponents say Oklahoma is losing an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/10\/07\/oklahoma-vs-texas-a-red-river-rivalry-of-taxes\/\">economic battle with Texas<\/a>, which has no state income tax. And competition from the north could intensify the 2013 income tax debate, Fallin tells the AP.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republican governor said the success of lawmakers in Kansas in passing legislation to reduce that state\u2019s income tax rate from 6.45 percent to 4.9 percent for 2013 will place more pressure on Oklahoma lawmakers to take action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intense special interest lobbying to save hundreds of millions in tax credits, deductions and exemptions derailed efforts to cut Oklahoma\u2019s personal income tax, Gov. Mary Fallin tells the Associated Press.Reducing and ultimately eliminating the income tax was a cornerstone of Fallin and Republican lawmakers\u2019 goals for the 2012 legislative session. By April, Fallin had conceded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,16],"tags":[118,53,60],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7078,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}