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| Indiana Farm Bureau president encourages property tax reforms |
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For the first time in many years, it now appears that the Indiana General Assembly is poised to make real and meaningful reform in this state’s complex, complicated and convoluted property tax system. I am sincerely encouraged that our legislative leaders are talking together about a plan that would:
•Remove school general fund from the property tax rolls.
•Give local units of government the option to increase income taxes.
•Create a local review board to evaluate large public building projects.
I want to urge the members of Indiana Farm Bureau, as well as all citizens, to contact their legislators and urge them to vote in favor of real property tax reform.
Our property tax system is broken. It cannot be fixed. It must be replaced.
If it is not, farmers, homeowners and property taxpayers face the unwanted prospect of ever-increasing property taxes that could eventually force property owners to sell, rather than invest in, their property.
Now that legislators from many areas of Indiana are talking seriously about property tax reform, those same legislators need to hear from you. You don’t need to be a property tax expert to talk about property taxes.
All you need to do is tell your state representative and state senator how today’s property taxes are affecting your pocketbook.
That’s a message they can easily understand.
To contact your state representative, call toll-free, 800-382-9842.
To reach your state senator, call 800-382-9467.
Working together, we can finally achieve the worthy goal of moving away from property taxes.
Don Villwock, President
Indiana Farm Bureau |
| 4/25/2007 |
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