Showing posts with label income taxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label income taxes. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Can We Just Stop With The Lying?

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So the income taxes are going up. Front and center in the IndyStar review of last night's vote of the Council , is this quote from Cou...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

They Call it "COUNTY" Option Income Tax for a Reason

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In a previous blog entry I showed graphs comparing the impact of eliminating the Local Homestead Credit, expanding the old IPD Tax District...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Dazzle Them With Numbers

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Tonight the Admin & Finance committee of the City-County Council will consider eliminating the local homestead credit (again - Prop 274 ...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Ballard Tax Revenues About $100 Million More Than Peterson Had

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What can you say about the Ballard Administration's request to drop the local Homestead Credit (increasing taxes on most property owner...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

IMS Tax Givaway Would Affect Local Tax Revenues To City and (Gasp!) the CIB

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A lot of misinformation is swirling, regarding local tax revenue implications of SB91, the $100 million giveaway to the Indianapolis Motor S...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Mayors' Budget Veto Just May Be About Tax Increases - Its Certainly Not About A Balanced Budget

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Mayor Vaughn usually pulls the strong arm stuff out of view of the public.  Threats, horse swapping, calling on Republican unity even when d...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

TIF Fact #1 --- We've Been Bailing TIFs Out For Years

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I sent the following email message to all City-County Councillors, select media representatives, and Senator Luke Kenley. Marion County T...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

First Do No Harm - Impact of TIFs - Marion County As a Whole

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Many people in positions of power in the County prefer to sell the vision that TIFs create 'found money' that would not have existed...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Update - Budget Overview

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The complete budget still has not been published online, and hopefully will be by week's end.  Therefore I am unable to tell you what th...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Jail Overcrowding And The 2005 COIT Increase

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Much hay is trying to be made of an increase in the County Option Income Tax back in 2005.  So I thought I'd revisit just what was going...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Is The Sale Of City Assets The Real Reason For This Year's Budget Chrunch?

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This is the fifth year that I have spearheaded the budget review effort of the Marion County Alliance of Neighborhood Associations.  Each ye...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

More Goodies For Companies - More New Bad Laws

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Last week I blogged about a new state law that was illuminated by the proposed abatement for Navistar / Pure Power - whereby it is now legal...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Games with COIT, LOIT, PST and Library Funding

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I don't know what actually takes more slight of hand, the movement of dollars from one fund to another that are said not to be possible,...