{"id":26065,"date":"2017-02-01T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/kito-wants-new-tax-on-lobbyists-including-his-dad\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T01:08:58","slug":"kito-wants-new-tax-on-lobbyists-including-his-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/kito-wants-new-tax-on-lobbyists-including-his-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Kito wants new tax on lobbyists \u2014 including his dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sam Kito III, D-Juneau, has proposed a new state tax on lobbyists.<\/p>\n<p>The tax would hit close to home: Kito&rsquo;s father, Sam Kito Jr., is a lobbyist.<\/p>\n<p>According to records of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Kito Jr. has contracts worth more than $130,000 combined in 2017 with the North Slope Borough, Alaska Cruise Association, Alaska Travel Industry Association, GCI, Icy Strait Point, and pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Kito&rsquo;s bill levies &ldquo;a tax of 2.5 percent of the person&rsquo;s income earned from lobbying activities conducted &#8230; during the preceding calendar year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The tax does not apply to volunteer lobbyists (who go unpaid) or &ldquo;representational lobbyists,&rdquo; people who are repaid for their travel to Juneau but aren&rsquo;t otherwise paid.<\/p>\n<p>Kito&rsquo;s bill, House Bill 91, has been assigned to the House State Affairs Committee. No hearings have yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sam Kito III, D-Juneau, has proposed a new state tax on lobbyists. The tax would hit close to home: Kito&rsquo;s father, Sam Kito Jr., is a lobbyist. According to records of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Kito Jr. has contracts worth more than $130,000 combined in 2017 with the North Slope Borough, Alaska Cruise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26065"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}