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Cities: IndianapolisCounties: Marion CountyMFP Tags: Senator Pat Miller, Pat Miller, Indiana Senate, Indiana Republicans, Republicans, Indiana Tax, Indiana Taxes, Indiana Property Taxes, Indiana Porperty TaxTopics: PoliticsTypes: News
Sen. Pat Miller Urges Commission to be ‘Bold’ in Overhauling Indiana’s Property Tax System
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Sen. Pat Miller (R-Indianapolis) told the State Tax and Financing Policy Commission Monday that both the property tax and assessment systems are broken and must be fixed now.
“It doesn’t work for people with disabilities,” she said. “It doesn’t work for senior citizens. It doesn’t work for young families. It doesn’t work for landlords and tenants. It doesn’t work – period.”
Miller and Sen. Teresa Lubbers (R-Indianapolis) both received multiple rounds of applause from concerned taxpayers in the audience for their remarks and suggestions. The two senators have been leaders for change since the property tax crisis began. They were largely responsible for getting the State Tax and Financing Policy to hold hearings on the issue.
“I urge the commission to be bold, creative and sensitive to taxpayers now,” Miller said during a presentation at a public hearing attended by as many as 150 people in the Indiana Government Center Monday. “We cannot wait until 2011 – the time it would take for a constitutional amendment banning property taxes – to solve this problem.”
Miller suggested seven possible remedies that can be implemented now to the tax board:
- Look at other states, particularly those that have a flat 1 percent property tax based on purchase price or other methods that do not require assessment;
- Eliminate assessing
- If there is a special session, withdraw the rebate plan and use a tax credit instead;
- Analyze the effectiveness, responsibilities and role of the Department of Local Government Finance;
- Have the state provide local government relief for welfare costs and the school general fund;
- Remove the one-tenth of 1 percent that goes to the state from property taxes; and
- Residential bills must be forcefully capped
Miller testified at the first in a series of scheduled meetings by the State Tax and Financing Policy Commission. It will meet again next Monday at 9 a.m. in Room 431 of the Statehouse. Next Monday’s meeting will focus on one of Miller’s main points – the pros and cons of the current tax rebate plan versus turning it into a tax credit.
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Miller suggested "seven" possible remedies that can be implemented now to the tax board:
(1) Look at other states, particularly those that have a flat 1 percent property tax based on purchase price or other methods that do not require assessment;
Re: The Flat Tax is wonderful but start it at a THRESHOLD near or at the poverty line.
(2)Eliminate assessing.
Re: If we had NO PROPERETY TAX, there would be NO NEED for it.
(3)If there is a special session, withdraw the rebate plan and use a tax credit instead.
Re: Rebates cause government to grow to administer them, credits are better normally.
(4) Analyze the effectiveness, responsibilities and role of the Department of Local Government Finance.
Re: It would be best to Pre_set dates for review; if found lacking or adjustment is required use the Referendum and Recall format to make the will of the people know and reset the timer once again.
(5) Have the state provide local government relief for welfare costs and the school general fund.
ReShuffling really does NOY WORK. WE need to cut to the bone and reapply for what we want to keep and in a form we can live (working Poor can afford) without jeopardy (Consequences yes, Jepardy No.
(6) Remove the one-tenth of 1 percent that goes to the state from property taxes.
Re: NO Property TAX NO 1%
(7)Residential bills must be forcefully capped
Re: Basic necessities of life and living should not be taxed ever. Exstream necessities aside, we should not live our lives in jeopardy of a government of the people and by the people. WE THE PEOPLE need protection from our Government in a similar way we do from foreign invasion and special interest groups that would use the rule of law to steal our very security we think we have won.
I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I want protection for ourselves from Government Seizure for any reason other then criminal due process of Law cases. Further I don't want any one group having that much power vested in the law to be able to force otherwise peaceful people to be at jetport of losing their homes due to any attempt to pas a law or administrative code. In otherwise WE THE PEOPLE want protections vested in WE THE PEOPLE not our representatives only. Or for that matter our Judicial System only.
Nothing less then that will be acceptable; If I have been shortsighted here I will back up and reassess my position if an argument can be made for putting our Person, Property and Papers at jeopardy for anything other then criminal activity let them make it.
Look to import Duties, Tariffs, Excise tax (sin Taxes) for raising taxes or user fees per use; but allow time payments, scaled to already unencumbered income already existing for such payments to be make and cap it at what government pays for such credit and do not use the rule of 72. Keep it simple per annum, and allow early pay off of the debt without penalty. Do not use a credit format that does not take into account inability to pay. Do not repeat the mistake of the court mandated child welfare acts that do not account for the inability to pay. Or if mandated it again should be based on the scale of income actually brought in not federal or state scaled; as all that does is clog the wheels of justice and ignore the facts of what that child would be living in if still in a two parent home.
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