State committee analyzes Wyoming’s tax structure

CHEYENNE — Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer and Michael Walden-Newman of the Wyoming Taxpayers Association have something in common.

They both think the bill creating the Wyoming Tax Reform 2000 Committee could be the most important bill to emerge from the 1997 Legislature, because their hope is that it will provide a long-term vehicle to reform and stabilize Wyoming’s tax structure.

That might sound a little unusual — a governor and the executive director of a taxpayers group agreeing on something that could bring sweeping changes to tax structure in a state that doesn’t like to tax very much.

But Geringer and Walden-Newman have…