Renewable Energy Property Tax Exemption

Program Overview

Implementing Sector State
Category Financial Incentive
State Kansas
Incentive Type Property Tax Incentive
Administrator Kansas Corporation Commission
Start Date 01/01/1999 (general)
01/01/2002 (non-electricity landfill gas)
Eligible Renewable/Other Technologies Geothermal Electric, Solar Thermal Electric, Solar Photovoltaics, Wind (All), Biomass, Hydroelectric, Landfill Gas, Wind (Small)
Applicable Sectors Commercial, Industrial, Residential
Incentive Amount 100%

Summary

Note: In May 2015, S.B. 91 was enacted, which limits the property tax exemption for applications received after December 31, 2016, to a period of 10 years.

Kansas statute exempts renewable energy equipment from property taxes if an application for an exemption is filed for the property on or before December 31, 2016. For applications for exemptions filed after December 31, 2016, a property tax exemption is limited to the 10 taxable years immediately following the taxable year in which construction or installation of such property is completed.

Renewable energy includes wind, solar thermal electric, photovoltaic, biomass, hydropower, geothermal, and landfill gas resources or technologies that are actually and regularly used predominantly to produce and generate electricity. In addition, beginning in the 2002 tax year all personal property used to collect, refine, and treat landfill gas or transport landfill gas from a landfill to a transmission pipeline (i.e., not necessarily used for electricity generation) is also exempt from property taxes.

Authorities

Name Kansas Statutes 79-201
Effective Date 01/01/1999
Name S.B. 91
Date Enacted 05/28/2015
Effective Date 07/01/2015

Contact

Organization:
Kansas Department of Revenue
Address:
Docking State Office Building
Topeka, KS 66625-8000
Phone:
(785) 296-2365