Governor Mitch Daniels today signed a bill that he says will give Hoosiers permanent property tax relief.  Daniels, along with House Speaker Pat Bauer, Senate Pro Temp David Long and Lt. Governor Becky Skillman, signed House Bill 1001 which would cut property taxes by an average of 30 percent across the state. Property taxes were […]

I’m composing a list of winners and losers as a result of this session’s property tax reform for this weekend.  In addition to the obvious ones (i.e. the property taxpayers and even more so the protesters), but also Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.  Ballard asked lawmakers to pick up the tab for those pre-1977 police pension […]

Although the bigger points of the Statehouse property tax reform have been spelled out there are quite a few details embedded in the 600-page document.  Here area few of them that may not not have made the headlines.  PTRC & Homestead Credits – There’s an additional $620 million in homestead credits to help reduce property […]

I spent a good chunk of time last night with Indiana lawmakers at an end of session gathering downtown.  I asked a number of them, both Republicans and Democrats, about  what they thought about getting out on time on providing Hoosiers with permanent property tax relief. Everyone seemed confident lawmakers would get out on time, […]

Indiana House Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other over the death of a bill that would have codified Governor Mitch Daniels’ property tax assessment caps into the state Constitution. House Joint Resolution 1 would have capped resident property tax assessments at 1 percent of a home’s value, 2 percent for rental property and 3 […]

There’s an old saying that two things you don’t want to see made are laws and sausage.  Today the Indiana House of Representatives are going to meet as a “committee of the whole” (that means all 100 members will be in the same room)  and offer up amendments to Governor Mitch Daniels’ property tax reform […]

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is going to testify before lawmakers at the House Ways and Means Committee this morning about his property tax reform plan.  Daniels is expected to reinforce a number of themes laid out in his state of the state address.  He’ll talk about working for the people, not special interests. He’ll talk about […]

Marion County officials say they are almost done with their reassessment of residential property as ordered by Governor Mitch Daniels. Assessor Greg Bowes says seven of the nine townships are very close to being completed and Center and Washington townships could be done within a couple of weeks. The reassessment of commercial property won’t be […]

I got a news release Monday from the Indiana State Democratic Party criticizing Republican Mayor-elect Greg Ballard for signing on to the Governor’s property tax reduction plan. They say Ballard promised to pursue eliminating property taxes but changed his mind after getting elected into office. Now while this skews the facts a bit because Ballard […]

Marion County property taxpayers could get some relief from their third installment property tax bills scheduled to come out this Spring. Governor Mitch Daniels says he’s open to allowing taxpayers to make their third payment in installments. In the wake of this summer’s property tax crisis, the Governor ordered a reassessment of property and froze […]