How do you spell tax relief? “D-A-N-I-E-L-S”
I have to give it to Governor Mitch Daniels. He did today what more than 65 taxing units and dozens of Marion County elected and appointed officials were either unwilling or unable to do. He got a lot of Hoosiers some badly needed property tax relief.
Daniels is ordering that Marion County taxpayers only pay their 2006 assessment for now while he orders a new assessment. The Department of Local Government and Finance discovered that most (75%) of the commercial and industrial property in Marion County was either improperly assessed or not assessed at all.
Daniels has also asked, and they’ve accepted, former Governor Joe Kernan and Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard to head a panel to reform and restructure local government.
This is some welcome news for a lot of people. I even called my brother who was on vacation in Florida and told him. It made his day.
There will be some details that will be worked out at the local level. And the reassessments won’t be complete for 6-8 months, however what it does go to show that an elected official in this state can do something other than spend your hard earned money.
