PHOENIX — Saying Arizonans deserve certainty, the House and Senate on Wednesday approved a package of tax cuts that mirror what Congress enacted last year and what’s in the tax forms already printed by the Arizona Department of Revenue at the direction of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and being used by taxpayers.
But the victory for GOP lawmakers will be short lived: Hobbs already has pronounced the package dead on arrival when it reaches her desk. And in a statement late Wednesday, she accused Republican lawmakers, in approving this bill — and not just the tax cuts she wants — of “holding middle class tax cuts hostage to deliver tax breaks to special interests and billionaires.”
All that leaves millions of Arizonans wondering whether to file their 2025 tax returns now given there is no deal on how much the state will cut income taxes and who will benefit.
