Stop the Tax Chaos in Arizona. Stop Chaos Katie.
Arizona taxpayers deserve peace of mind during tax season — not uncertainty about whether they’ll have to amend, refile, or pay more later. It’s time for Governor Katie Hobbs to support a clear fix so people can file with confidence.
Did You Know?
Katie Hobbs is currently pushing a plan that will require Arizonans to file their taxes twice this year, and make people pay more when they do it. Katie Hobbs opposes full conformity tax relief, which means a $200 million tax increase for Arizona taxpayers. She even vetoed a bill that would have let people use the tax forms that her own administration approved and published!
What is Happening?
1.
The state remains without conformity since Gov. Katie Hobbs rejected a solution by the Republican-led legislature amounting to $1.1 billion.
2.
Republicans tried to bring another solution to the table with HB 2785, which would have brought Arizona’s income tax law into full conformity with the federal Internal Revenue Code as reflected in the tax forms already issued by Hobbs’ Department of Revenue for the 2025 tax year. Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed it.
3.
As tax season loomed, Republican lawmakers urged Hobbs to call a special session to fix conformity before millions of Arizonans began filing. She wouldn’t. And now chaos is unfolding. Hobbs then compounded the problem in her State of the State address by demanding immediate action on “middle-class tax relief,” even though she had done none of the basic work to make it actually happen. Not one Democrat had introduced her plan via an actual bill.
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To make matters worse, her own Department of Revenue even further highlighted her dysfunction. DOR testified to a joint committee of the House and Senate, hearing the Republican-conformity plan (an actual introduced bill), that it issued tax forms assuming full federal conformity because no law existed directing them otherwise. They warned that if the state does not fully conform, more than one million taxpayers will be forced to refile amended returns, requiring the agency to hire roughly 200 additional employees just to process the backlog.
Bottom Line:
When government sends mixed signals in the middle of filing season, working families and small businesses pay the price — in time, stress, and money.
What does this mean for taxpayers?
Risk of “Filing Twice”
If you file now and the rules change later, you may have to amend your return.
Hidden Costs
Amended returns can mean extra prep fees, more paperwork, and weeks of uncertainty.
Confidence matters
Taxpayers should not be caught in the crossfire of political games.
what do we do about it?
Contact Governor Katie Hobbs and tell her to END THE CHAOS and let taxpayers use the tax forms her own administration approved and published.
This is total tax chaos,
and Katie Hobbs is 100% to blame.
Katie Hobbs may like chaos, but taxpayers deserve peace of mind during tax season.
Paid for by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club.