Members of the Arkansas Legislature's tax overhaul task force have a wide variety of aims, ranging from wanting to have a broad overhaul of sales and income taxes to simplifying the tax code.
And one of the task force's leaders, Sen. Jim Hendren, R-Sulphur Springs, said $100 million a year should be the starting point for the panel's discussions about future income tax cuts.
Rep. Jim Dotson, R-Bentonville, who is on the panel, said he wants to try to cut income tax rates further, charge sales tax on more goods and services, and then cut the sales tax rate.
But Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, said she worries that the Legislature lacks the political will to broaden the sales tax base to help pay for tax cuts.
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