TAX LAWSUIT
Attorney John Price is filing suit this morning challenging the way property taxes are done in Indiana. While a lot of it involves legal issues that would take too long to explain, there are three main issue Price says he wants a quick ruling on three main issues.
First, he says he wants taxpayers who overpaid their property taxes prior to the Governor’s reassessment order to get their refunds now. Price says the Department of Local Government and Finance wants to take up to six months to issue refunds. Price says you wouldn’t have to wait for a refund if you took an item back to the store so you shouldn’t have to wait for your tax refund.
Second, Price says the public safety tax recently passed by the Indianapolis City-County Council was illegal because former Councilmember Patrice Abduallah should have never voted on the measure. Price says Abduallah vacated his seat in January when he filed for re-election and should have never been in his seat, therefore the vote was illegal.
Third, he says the Governor did not have the authority to extend tax deadlines without legislative approval and those should be thrown out as well.
Price says there are a number of other issues regarding assessments and abatements that are in the lawsuit as well. He is not challenging the constitutionality of property taxes, he is arguing that applied under the current system, they are unconstitutional.
Stay tuned for more later.
