State Sen. Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenbrug) said Wednesday that eliminating the state income tax will be a top priority for North Carolina Republicans when the legislature returns for a full session in 2015. Rucho said he hopes to replace the state income tax with a consumption-based sales tax.

Via The Washington Post:

“We want to get away from that and go to a more flat consumption-based tax on sales taxes, both goods and services, and in return, we’ll say, ‘We’ll go to zero with the income tax.’ And that’s something we think we can achieve. It just takes time to get there,” he said. This year, the Republican-dominated legislature instituted deep cuts in both the personal and corporate income taxes. Personal income tax rates will fall by two percentage points, from 7.75 percent to about 5.8 percent, while the corporate rate will fall from 6.7 percent to as low as 3 percent over the next several years, depending on how much revenue the state generates.

House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) referred to the plan as “something we all agree on.”

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