Bill Text: IN HB1396 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Exception to circuit breaker credit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means [HB1396 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2011-HB1396-Introduced.html


Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1396

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 6-1.1-20.6-7; IC 6-1.1-20.6-7.5; P.L.146-2008, SECTION 858.

Synopsis: Exception to circuit breaker credit. Eliminates an exception to the circuit breaker credit for property taxes imposed in Lake County or St. Joseph County to pay debt service or make lease payments for bonds or leases issued or entered into before July 1, 2008. Repeals a provision memorializing a determination made in 2008 by the general assembly that the circuit breaker limits were expected to reduce in 2010 the aggregate property tax revenue that would otherwise be collected by all units of local government and school corporations in Lake County and St. Joseph County by at least 20%.

Effective: January 1, 2012.





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    January 18, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.







Introduced

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1396



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning taxation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 6-1.1-20.6-7; (11)IN1396.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 6-1.1-20.6-7, AS AMENDED BY P.L.1-2010, SECTION 30, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2012]: Sec. 7. (a) This subsection applies to property taxes first due and payable in 2009. A person is entitled to a credit against the person's property tax liability for property taxes first due and payable in 2009. The amount of the credit is the amount by which the person's property tax liability attributable to the person's:
        (1) homestead exceeds one and five-tenths percent (1.5%);
        (2) residential property exceeds two and five-tenths percent (2.5%);
        (3) long term care property exceeds two and five-tenths percent (2.5%);
        (4) agricultural land exceeds two and five-tenths percent (2.5%);
        (5) nonresidential real property exceeds three and five-tenths percent (3.5%); or
        (6) personal property exceeds three and five-tenths percent (3.5%);
of the gross assessed value of the property that is the basis for determination of property taxes for that calendar year.
    (b) This subsection applies to property taxes first due and payable in 2009. Property taxes imposed after being approved by the voters in a referendum or local public question shall not be considered for purposes of calculating a person's credit under this section.
    (c) This subsection applies to property taxes first due and payable in 2009. As used in this subsection, "eligible county" means only a county for which the general assembly determines in 2008 that limits to property tax liability under this chapter are expected to reduce in 2010 the aggregate property tax revenue that would otherwise be collected by all units of local government and school corporations in the county by at least twenty percent (20%). Property taxes imposed in an eligible county to pay debt service or make lease payments for bonds or leases issued or entered into before July 1, 2008, shall not be considered for purposes of calculating a person's credit under this section.
SOURCE: IC 6-1.1-20.6-7.5; (11)IN1396.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 6-1.1-20.6-7.5, AS ADDED BY P.L.146-2008, SECTION 223, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2012]: Sec. 7.5. (a) A person is entitled to a credit against the person's property tax liability for property taxes first due and payable after 2009. The amount of the credit is the amount by which the person's property tax liability attributable to the person's:
        (1) homestead exceeds one percent (1%);
        (2) residential property exceeds two percent (2%);
        (3) long term care property exceeds two percent (2%);
        (4) agricultural land exceeds two percent (2%);
        (5) nonresidential real property exceeds three percent (3%); or
        (6) personal property exceeds three percent (3%);
of the gross assessed value of the property that is the basis for determination of property taxes for that calendar year.
    (b) This subsection applies to property taxes first due and payable after 2009. Property taxes imposed after being approved by the voters in a referendum or local public question shall not be considered for purposes of calculating a person's credit under this section.
    (c) This subsection applies to property taxes first due and payable after 2009. As used in this subsection, "eligible county" means only a county for which the general assembly determines in 2008 that limits to property tax liability under this chapter are expected to reduce in 2010 the aggregate property tax revenue that would otherwise be collected by all units of local government and school corporations in the county by at least twenty percent (20%). Property taxes imposed in

an eligible county to pay debt service or make lease payments for bonds or leases issued or entered into before July 1, 2008, shall not be considered for purposes of calculating a person's credit under this section.

SOURCE: ; (11)IN1396.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. P.L.146-2008, SECTION 858 IS REPEALED [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2012].
SOURCE: ; (11)IN1396.1.4. -->     SECTION 4. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011] (a) Before January 1, 2012, the department of local government finance shall notify the county auditor in Lake County and St. Joseph County that the provisions of IC 6-1.1-20.6-7(c) and IC 6-1.1-20.6-7.5(c), as stricken from the law by this act, no longer apply to property taxes first due and payable after December 31, 2011.
    (b) This SECTION expires January 1, 2012.

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