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Farm Credit Fairness Bill

11/13/2019
Please contact your Washington delegates and ask them to cosponsor HR1872 and S1641. Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Jamie Comer are already cosponsors.

H.R.3182

06/13/2019
Introduced this week in Congress by a bipartisan group of Representatives. This bill would halt the implementation of the expected credit loss standard of CECL until an impact study can be completed. There are 10 cosponsors so far. Ky legislators have not yet signed on as cosponsors, but from our conversations with our delegation this would not appear to be as a result of lack of interest. We will be contacting our delegation and asking each to sign onto HR 3182.

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Washington Trip Notes

06/27/2019
I went to the trip with more than 37 questions, I received answers for approximately 2!

Bank Franchise Tax Repeal Passes House and Senate!!

03/14/2019
The House and the Senate approved, each by a very large margin, the repeal of the Bank Franchise Tax which was added to HB354 during conference

Kentucky Bank Franchise Tax HB 354

02/22/2019
HB 354, the general tax package, was voted out of the House yesterday without any language addressing our bank tax imbalance. The magnitude of the bank tax issue was underscored by the number of calls that began pouring into the KBA office on Thursday from bankers whose legislators were pointing out that the language wasn’t in the bill.

Banks Get Higher Taxes

04/03/2018
The legislature once again stuck it to the banking industry by lowering the corporate rate to 5% while leaving the Bank Franchise tax intact.