HUMBOLDT — Barfoot Lumber, for decades a flagship business in downtown Humboldt, was shuttered temporarily Monday by the Kansas Department of Revenue for not having paid $46,230 in sales taxes since November 2012. The owners later reached a payment arrangement, and the lumberyard reopened for business Tuesday morning.
Kent Barfoot said the economic slowdown was partly to blame for the issue.
“It made it difficult to pay as much or as quickly as KDOR wanted,” he said.
Only after several unsuccessful attempts does the department seize assets. Those assets have been released, announced KDOR spokewman Jeannine Koranda, allowing Barfoots to be back in business.
The Department of Revenue’s standard practice is to encourage delinquent taxpayers, who are not lawfully filing or paying taxes — such as sales or withholding — to voluntarily enter into a repayment agreement.
