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Episodes: 150
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Timely topics on public policy issues related to state and local government in Indiana published once a month.
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Looking Back 25 Years
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Property Tax Reform: Phasing Out, Phasing In
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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The Incredible Shrinking Tax Base
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Are Higher Tariffs Causing Inflation?
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Indiana’s County Assessors Predict Home Values Well — and that’s the Problem
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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The Personal Property Exemption: Not so Minimal Anymore
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Big Property Tax Bill Also Reforms the Local Income Tax
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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The Indiana Property Tax: It’s Complicated
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Property Tax Reform: What’s Going on in the Room Where it Happens?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Property Taxes on Farmland May Be Reformed
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Scrooge and Malthus
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Policies to Cut Homeowner Property Taxes
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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The Federal Reserve Makes Its Move
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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How Do We Know If a Recession Has Started?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Balances Cover Shortfalls in Indiana’s State Budget
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Fifty Years of Indiana Property Tax Policy
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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What Will Happen When the Social Security Trust Fund Runs Out?
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May 23, 2024 |
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The Envelope from the County Treasurer
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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A Simple View of the Economy Helps Us Understand Growth
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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How Much Will Homeowner Property Tax Bills Rise in 2024?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Farmland Property Taxes May Keep Increasing
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Taking Inflation Apart
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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How Much Will Homeowner Property Taxes Rise in 2024?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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How Can a Homeowner Calculate the Cost of a School Referendum?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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How Do States Manage Without Individual Income Taxes?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Supply Chain Pressure is Easing, and so is Inflation
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Indiana State Balances and the Pension Stabilization Fund
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Will the Inflation Rate Keep Falling?
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The General Assembly Delivers Some Property Tax Relief
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May 23, 2023 |
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An Extra Billion and a Half in State Revenue
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Property Tax Bills are Increasing a Lot in 2023
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Solar Energy Projects and Property Taxes
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Farmland Property Tax Misery Has Company
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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State Revenue Growth Will Return to Normal
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Holiday Inflation Cheer
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Cost of Living Adjustments
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The Housing Market is Cooling Off
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Is this a Recession?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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$6 Billion in Balances
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Inflation and Indiana School District Budgets
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Shocked and Not Shocked by Home Assessments
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May 24, 2022 |
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How to Read an Indiana School Referendum Question
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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The Residential Share of Property Taxes is on the Rise
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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What Will Happen to Inflation?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Farmland Assessments will Increase for Taxes in 2023
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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What Happens to Property Taxes During Inflation?
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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We Finally Know How the Recession Will Affect Property Taxes
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Birth Rates Have Been Falling for a Long Time
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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What Three Forecasts Say About Our Economic Future
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Last Year’s Recession Hits Indiana Local Governments Next Year
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Reasons to Celebrate the Indiana Fiscal New Year
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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What Kind of Inflation Problem Do We Have?
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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A State Revenue Forecast for the Ages
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May 19, 2021 |
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Pent-Up Demand, Then and Now
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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It’s Tax Season. Where Do Your Local Taxes Go?
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Okun, Phillips and Our Economy
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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The Recession May Be a Light Hit for LIT
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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The State Revenue Forecast: We Might be OK
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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A Tale of Two Recessions
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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COVID Recession Makes Farmland Tax Predictions Harder
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Don’t get spun: What’s happening in our economy, right now?
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Rents, Telecommuting and Harry Potter
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Trouble for Indiana’s State Budget
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Recession and the Indiana Property Tax
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Our Economic Recovery Depends on Consumers
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May 20, 2020 |
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Indiana’s State Budget in the Corona-Recession
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Supply and Demand and the Coronavirus
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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The MLGQ is Long Overdue
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Farmland Assessments: Is this the End of the Downward Trend?
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Gross Domestic Product for Counties
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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How Tax Bills Are Calculated, and Where the Money Goes
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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How Low are Indiana’s Taxes?
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Money for Schools
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Is the Long Expansion Over?
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Why Does Indiana Keep Balances, and How Much is Enough?
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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The Yield Curve Inverted. Is There a Recession in Our Near Future?
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Paging Professor Phillips
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May 20, 2019 |
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Revenue and Medicaid Forecasts Squeeze the State Budget
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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How Fast Can Our Economy Grow?
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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What Has Happened to Indiana Local Income Tax Rates in 2019?
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Assessed Value of Farmland Will Fall a Little in 2020
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Why the Alarm about Yield Curve Inversions?
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Trends in Indiana School Referenda Results
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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The Proposed Balanced Budget Amendment for the Indiana Constitution
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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Why is GDP Growth Higher than the Unemployment Rate?
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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Why Did the Unemployment Rate Increase in June?
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Another Slow, Steady Year for the Indiana State Budget
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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Shedding Light on LIT
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Why Are School Tax Referenda Passing More Frequently?
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May 23, 2018 |
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Taxes and Tariffs
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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What Will Happen When the Base Rate of Farmland Falls?
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Amazon and Local Property Taxes
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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Some Facts About Indiana Townships
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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The State Revenue Forecast Update
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Five Thursdays in November
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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Leading indicators point down for Indiana's economy
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Jobs and JOLT
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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How fast can our economy grow at full employment?
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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The Indiana budget surplus and state balances for 2017
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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What's normal for Indiana property taxes?
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Road work ahead in Indiana
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May 25, 2017 |
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Predicting the Base Rate of Farmland for Property Taxes
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Apr 28, 2017 |
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Property Tax Rate Destiny
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Facts About the Cigarette Tax
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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How Could We Pay For Roads?
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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A Revenue Forecast for the New Biennium
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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Indiana's November Surprise
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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Coming Reductions in Farmland Assessments for Property Taxes
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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We've Got Really Low Interest Rates
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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Indiana Revises its Revenue Forecast
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Indiana LIT
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Aug 01, 2016 |
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Circuit Breakers and Growth Quotients
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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What's Been Happening with Indiana School Referenda?
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May 26, 2016 |
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How Old is Our Economic Expansion?
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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The General Assembly Changed Farmland Assessments Again
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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What's the Unemployment Rate?
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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Changes in Farmland Property Tax Assessment
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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Indiana Revises its Revenue Forecast
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Dec 22, 2015 |
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How to Read a Property Tax Report
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Nov 25, 2015 |
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Where We're Going, We Do Need Roads
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Oct 28, 2015 |
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Indiana's Economy: What Have We Got, and How's It Been Doing?
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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A State Budget Snapshot
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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What's Going On in the U.S. Economy?
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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Indiana Reforms Its Local Income Taxes
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Jun 25, 2015 |
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Tax Relief for Farmland Owners
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Tax Policy on the Business and Distributional Scales
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Apr 23, 2015 |
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Assessment Inequities and the Property Tax Caps
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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School Aid Number Crunching
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Feb 26, 2015 |
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Farmland Taxes Are a Hot Topic in the General Assembly
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Jan 22, 2015 |
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Revenue Forecast for the Next Biennium
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Dec 29, 2014 |
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School Referenda in May and November
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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Property Tax Trends in 2014
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Oct 24, 2014 |
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States and the Cost of Living
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Sep 25, 2014 |
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Strange Economic Orbit
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Aug 28, 2014 |
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The State Budget Closeout for 2014
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Jul 24, 2014 |
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School Capital Projects Referenda
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Jun 26, 2014 |
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Indiana's Low Per Capita Income
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May 28, 2014 |
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Has Indiana's Tax Burden Increased?
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Apr 29, 2014 |
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What the New Business Tax Commission Might Study
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Mar 28, 2014 |
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A Little Bit of Really Good Job News
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Feb 27, 2014 |
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Farmland Assessments Going Up
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Jan 23, 2014 |
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You Better Watch Out: The Assessor is Coming to Town
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Dec 20, 2013 |
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What Happens If We Eliminate Property Taxes on Business Equipment?
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Dec 09, 2013 |
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Homeowner Property Tax Bills in 2013
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Nov 04, 2013 |
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The Paradox of LOITs
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Oct 10, 2013 |
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Why Is the Unemployment Rate Falling so Fast?
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Aug 28, 2013 |
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Why Did Indiana's State Budget Recover so Fast?
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Aug 23, 2013 |
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School Referenda Splits
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Jul 03, 2013 |
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The Amazing Property Tax Reassessment of 2013
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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College Visits
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Apr 01, 2013 |