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Indiana Tax Blog: January 2007

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Monday, January 29, 2007. Journal Gazette Assesses Property Tax Unfairness. Following up on the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute's terrific work on property tax inequities, the editorial board at the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette is beating the drum too. As the FPI documented in an October 2005 report. Posted by Matt G. Making the Property Tax More Like An Income Tax? FPI's latest budget brief drives this point home again with an apt comparison to the income tax:. But it's worth dwelling on FPI's property ta...

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Midwest Hicksville Literary: June 2010

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Sunday, June 27, 2010. Please be kind - I didn't write for a while, and the rust shows. I hesitated before posting this, because it was written on a downer day, and I try to keep things upbeat around here. But y'know what? Not all things worth saying are upbeat. I had another round with this depression of mine recently. It lasted almost the whole month, and it was horrible. It is a horrible and all too common malady. But you know what? We pray for sanctuary, but. Do we find it or does it find us? We try ...

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Indiana Tax Blog: A Broader View on "Congestion Charges"

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Friday, September 21, 2007. A Broader View on "Congestion Charges". It's hardly news that Indianapolis-area workers spend a lot of time on traffic. But a new report makes news out of this anyway. Indianapolis-area drivers wasted 43 hours in 2005 due to rush-hour congestion, according to a study released Tuesday by the Texas Transportation Institute, which regularly rates the congestion of metropolitan areas. Posted by Matt G. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Broader View on Congestion Charges.

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Indiana Tax Blog: Property Tax Rebate Not Placating Hoosier Homeowners

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Property Tax Rebate Not Placating Hoosier Homeowners. More than a month after Indiana lawmakers passed legislation providing temporary property tax rebates to help offset rapidly rising home values, people are apparently not buying it. The Indianapolis Star notes. That several property assessors in Marion County have requested police protection against irate homeowners when their tax bills arrive. What angry homeowners should know is that even with the improvements in assessment p...

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Indiana Tax Blog: November 2007

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007. ISTA Gives Thumbs Down to Governor's Tax Plan. Representatives of the Indiana State Teachers Association have announced the ISTA's opposition. To a plan, announced last month by Governor Mitch Daniels, that would eliminate property taxes as a source of school funding revenue, and would have the state pick up the schools' general fund tab entirely (they already pay 95% of these costs) using a sales tax hike to pay for it. And it's absolutely true that property taxes are a mor...

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Indiana Tax Blog: ISTA Gives Thumbs Down to Governor's Tax Plan

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007. ISTA Gives Thumbs Down to Governor's Tax Plan. Representatives of the Indiana State Teachers Association have announced the ISTA's opposition. To a plan, announced last month by Governor Mitch Daniels, that would eliminate property taxes as a source of school funding revenue, and would have the state pick up the schools' general fund tab entirely (they already pay 95% of these costs) using a sales tax hike to pay for it. And it's absolutely true that property taxes are a mor...

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Indiana Tax Blog: Is Indiana's Constitution to Blame for Property Tax Woes?

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007. Is Indiana's Constitution to Blame for Property Tax Woes? Writing in Monday's Indianapolis Star, Mark Akers suggests. That the easiest way out of Indiana's current property tax mess would be to just amend the state constitution:. Rather than make the enormous changes to local government that would be required to make enough of a difference. Akers doesn't say anything about how you'd change the constitution to make this possible, but presumably what he's got in mind is something ...

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Indiana Tax Blog: June 2007

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Property Tax Rebate Not Placating Hoosier Homeowners. More than a month after Indiana lawmakers passed legislation providing temporary property tax rebates to help offset rapidly rising home values, people are apparently not buying it. The Indianapolis Star notes. That several property assessors in Marion County have requested police protection against irate homeowners when their tax bills arrive. What angry homeowners should know is that even with the improvements in assessment p...

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Indiana Tax Blog: Mangan: If It's Broken, Throw It Away

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Mangan: If It's Broken, Throw It Away. If it's broken, throw it away. That's the word from Patrick Mangan in today's South Bend Tribune. He's referring to Indiana's property tax system, which he believes is the reason why "many hard-working families [have] lost a generation or more of wealth-building capital in homes and investment properties.". Here's the logic, if you can call it that, in a nutshell:. The question Mangan has to answer, and simply doesn't, is this: if the pro...

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Indiana Tax Blog: March 2007

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Can Nevada Offer a Property Tax Lesson for Indiana? Property tax debates are a striking regularity in states around the nation- Indiana is hardly alone in its current focus on this topic. But what's equally striking is that no one seems to be able to point to an example of a state that has confronted property tax reform in a universally acceptable way. But the Miami Herald's Lisa Arthur thinks she's found the solution. Homeowners were about to be taxed out of their houses. As lon...