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Kansas closed January 2026 with total tax collections of $988.2 million, coming in $12.2 million, or 1.2%, above the state’s estimate. Overall collections were also up 4.8% compared to January 2025.

Individual income tax collections reached $542.3 million for the month. That amount was $7.3 million, or 1.4%, higher than expected and 8.4% above collections from a year ago.

Corporate income tax collections totaled $86.2 million. That figure exceeded estimates by $16.2 million, or 23.2%, and was up 18.1% from January 2025.

Combined retail sales and compensating use tax receipts came in at $337.8 million. That was $12.2 million, or 3.5%, below the estimate and down 3.2% compared to the same month last year.

“Over the past few years, the Legislature has spent more than Kansas has been taking in, creating a structural imbalance of hundreds of millions of dollars,” said Governor Laura Kelly. “My final budget puts Kansas on a path to rectify that unsustainable balance over time.”