Governor's Property Tax Plan This Week?

     The Indiana Family Institute has been asked to evaluate the Governor's property tax plan, which we've been told will probably be released within the coming week.

     Any insights or briefing we get will likely come after the key elements have been announced, but we look forward to offering our analysis of the proposal for readers of Veritas Rex.  Any proposal will be the starting point for debate in the upcoming short session of the Indiana General Assembly on property tax reform, although conceivably the Governor could take some steps through Executive branch action.  Dramatically rising local property tax bills and the inept handling of the issue in the past session have combined to give the issue great political saliency around the state.  The mess is so bad that as one taxpayer (Boone County resident), I still don't know my 2007 bill (the first half of which was due in April of 2007).