Virginia, it is not safe to make a blanket statement about Kansas taxes like that. I spoke with over 30 counties in the past two months there and got different responses from each one about whether or not they assess taxes on minerals and royalties. There was no consistency. The one thing that is consistent, is that whether or not you are assessed taxes, does NOT reduce your responsibility to report (or send a rendition) of your minerals to the county each year. Kansas does have dormant mineral statutes. Paying taxes is only one method to prevent an owner from losing them, luckily (for those who are not assessed taxes, other methods are available).
Virginia Pflum said:
In Ks, you pay taxes on your minerals or you will lose them.