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New and updated in January '09: Indiana's local income taxes.
New and updated in January '09: The outlook for Indiana's state budget, 2009-2011. New on April 22: An expanded Capital Comments column on the state budget.
Updated in March '09: Legislative Services' March reports on property tax cap credits.
Added information, January '09: Indiana Tax Reform, 2008--an index page for the material about the 2008 property tax reform, on this website and elsewhere.
Updated in January '09: How Farm Land is Assessed in Indiana, with projections of future farm land base rates through taxes in 2012
New in December '08: A link to a recording of Larry DeBoer's December 18 streaming video presentation on the property tax reform, school funding and the state budget. And here are answers to the questions that were emailed at that presentation.
New in November '08: Legislative Services Agency's county-by-county analysis of 2008 homeowner tax bills. They've got more than 70 counties done now. LSA has released its annual Handbook on Taxes, Revenues and Appropriations for 2008--the best reference around on Indiana government. And the Indiana Fiscal Policy Insitute is back (yeah!), with a piece on the outlook for the state budget.
New in October '08: County budget data for 2007.
Capital Comments
Link to the Capital Comments podcasts.
May 2009: School Bond Referenda
April 2009: State Budget Pain Now or Later
Click here for extra documentation and sources for April's column
March 2009: If Lenders Lend Again
February 2009: Filling the GDP Gap
January 2009: Farm Land Assessments Will Keep Increasing
December 2008: The Recession Arrives at the State House