TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Senate committee has been tinkering with a plan for raising taxes to close a budget shortfall but isn’t ready to pass it.

Chairman Les Donovan adjourned the Assessment and Taxation Committee’s meeting Thursday after about an hour of debate. He said the panel was moving toward a dead end.

The committee started with a plan from Donovan to raise $520 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It would have increased the state’s sales tax, as well as taxes on income, property, liquor, tobacco and gasoline.

The committee stripped out proposals to raise liquor taxes.

It also rejected proposals backed by Johnson County senators to impose a new $3-an-acre tax on land and repeal an exemption from the sales tax farmers receive when buying machinery.