By Arizona Agenda
During an uncharacteristically gloomy afternoon at the Arizona Capitol this week, House Speaker Steve Montenegro battled gusts of wind that sent his notes flapping across the podium as he laid out Republicans’ latest position in the political battle over Donald Trump’s tax cuts.
“No Arizonan should be forced to amend a tax return because of shifting executive positions,” he said.
Montenegro, flanked by about 20 other legislative Republicans, announced the House and Senate GOP caucuses sent Gov. Katie Hobbs a letter warning that “any outcome that forces Arizonans to refile their taxes is a non-starter.”
It was a fittingly dramatic backdrop for what has become an unusually dramatic fight over something that is typically anything but: adopting Arizona’s tax code.
So far, Hobbs has vetoed two Republican plans outlining how the state should conform to Trump’s tax cuts. She insists lawmakers instead pass the narrower, slightly less Trump-aligned package she rolled out in November under the banner of her “Middle Class Tax Cuts.”
