Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 79-1623

  • Act: means the COVID-19 retail storefront property tax relief act. See Kansas Statutes 79-1616
  • Claimant: means a for-profit business, regardless of legal structure, who has filed a claim under the provisions of this act and who:

    (A) Conducts a majority of its retail sales through customers' physical, on-site presence at a retail storefront property;

    (B) was in operation on or prior to July 1, 2019, and filed a 2019 tax return;

    (C) had at least $10,000 in annual revenues, including gross sales and receipts, in 2019;

    (D) received less gross revenue in 2020 or 2021, as applicable, compared to 2019;

    (E) was in active operations as of March 1, 2020; and

    (F) has not received more than a total of $150,000 in prior COVID-19-related local, state or federal funding or any combination thereof. See Kansas Statutes 79-1616

  • Owned: includes a vendee in possession under a land contract, a life tenant, a beneficiary under a trust and one or more joint tenants or tenants in common. See Kansas Statutes 79-1616
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Retail storefront: means the real property in this state, whether owned or rented, that is occupied by the claimant's business and where the claimant conducts retail sales through customers' physical, on-site presence. See Kansas Statutes 79-1616

(a) The amount of any claim otherwise payable under this act may be applied by the director of taxation against any liability outstanding on the books of the department of revenue against the claimant in the year that the claim relates.

(b) If there are delinquent property taxes for tax year 2020 or 2021 on a retail storefront owned by the claimant, the refund shall be paid to the county treasurer of the county in which such retail storefront is located and applied to such delinquent property taxes.