Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: every figure Clear Money Guide holds about Kansas, on one page, each one copied from a dataset that cites its own statute or agency. Built for reporters on deadline — take any line, follow the link for the source.
What stands out about Kansas
These are the figures where Kansas differs most from the rest of the country — selected by counting how many jurisdictions share each value, not by editorial preference.
- Return deadline: 14 days after the amount of damages/charges is determined, but never more than 30 days after termination — the only jurisdiction of the 51 we have data for
- Formation fee: $85 online / $90 by paper — the only jurisdiction of the 48 we have data for
- Grace period days: not less than 30 days — one of only 2 of 47
- Salary history ban: no — one of only 9 of 49
What dying costs here
- Small estate limit: 75000
- Small estate scope: personal_only
Source and full detail: the cost-of-dying index. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Estate and property law status
- Authorized: yes
- Statute or act: K.S.A. 53-5a21 et seq. (RULONA), enacted SB 106 (2021)
- Effective date: 2022-01-01
- Conditions: Notary must be physically located in Kansas (the signer may be remote); participation is optional for a commissioned notary. Must use an approved RON technology provider, obtain a digital certificate, complete mandatory training and pass a test before performing RON; a $20 registration fee applie…
- Association name: Kansas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
- Death benefit limit: $300,000
- Cash surrender limit: $100,000
- Annuity limit: $250,000
- Aggregate limit: $300,000
- Statute citation: Kan. Stat. Ann. ch. 40 art. 30 (Kansas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act, K.S.A. §§ 40-3001 et seq.); section-level pinpoint not independently read
- Grace period days: not less than 30 days
- Trigger: the due date of any premium after the first
- Coverage during grace: the policy shall continue in full force; if the policy becomes a claim during the grace period, the amount of any overdue premium AND any remaining unpaid installments of the annual premium for the policy year of death may be deducted in any settlement under the policy
- Variations: K.S.A. 40-420 does not apply to industrial insurance, annuities, pure endowments, group insurance, reinsurance, or policies issued or granted in exchange for lapsed or surrendered policies — so it sets no industrial/weekly-premium grace period.
Source and full detail: notary rules by state · guaranty association limits · life insurance free-look periods · life insurance grace periods. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Working and earning here
- Quit deadline: Not later than the next regular payday
- Fired deadline: Not later than the next regular payday
- Statute citation: K.S.A. 44-315
- Has law: No
- Disclosure trigger: none
- Salary history ban: no
- Local ordinances: none identified
- Authority: statute
- Contested: no
Source and full detail: final paycheck laws by state · pay transparency laws by state · paid family leave by state · the convenience-of-the-employer rule. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Renting here
- Deposit cap: 1 month’s rent unfurnished; 1.5 months’ furnished; plus up to an additional 0.5 month’s rent for a pet
- Return deadline: 14 days after the amount of damages/charges is determined, but never more than 30 days after termination
- Interest required: no
- Statute citation: K.S.A. 58-2550
Source and full detail: security deposit law by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Starting a business here
- Formation fee: $85 online / $90 by paper
- Annual report: $90 online / $110 by paper, filed BIENNIALLY (Kansas now calls it an ‘information report’)
- Franchise tax: none found in the sources searched
- Publication requirement: none identified
- Statute citation: K.S.A. 17-7673 (articles of organization), 17-76,136 (fees), 17-76,139 (business entity information report)
- Five year total: at least $355
Source and full detail: LLC cost by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Tax treatment here
- Has law: Yes
- Treatment: ordinary income
- Rate: top marginal 5.58%
- Preferential mechanism: none
- Tax year: 2026
- Statute citation: K.S.A. 79-32,110(a)
Source and full detail: capital gains tax by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
For journalists: how to cite this
Clear Money Guide, Kansas Money Statistics 2026. https://clearmoneyguide.com/state-money-statistics/kansas/. Every figure on this page is copied from a Clear Money Guide dataset that states its own primary source and the date it was read — follow the section links for the statute or agency behind any number. Free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
What this sheet does and does not contain
This sheet aggregates; it does not research. Every figure is copied from the owning page linked in each section, and a figure we do not own is simply absent — not estimated, not inferred from a neighbouring state. That is why sheets differ in length: this one states 41 figures, and a state where we hold less will show fewer. A short sheet means we have less, not that the state has less.
Statutory law changes. Each linked owner page carries the date its figures were read; check there before relying on anything here. See also Kansas financial adviser statistics and all 51 state money sheets.
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