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The county is also sending out a final wave of pink forms requiring owners to provide their name, address, Social Security number, driver's license or state-issued identification card number, passport or work visa and sign the form, certifying they are eligible for their homestead credit.

The pink survey sheet has been sent out the last three years and resulted in tens of thousands of homestead credits being removed as ineligible, but a remaining 10,000 owners have either failed to respond or left their earlier form incomplete.

Those who fill it out and return it to the auditor's office can avoid losing their deduction before the May tax bills.

Indianapolis, IN -
Governor Mike Pence today signed SEA 319, the first piece of legislation he has
signed into law.

The bill prevents an estimated $57million
property tax increase on Hoosier farmers by delaying the use of new soil
productivity factors in farmland assessment until the Department of Local
Government Finance (DLGF) and the Purdue University College of Agriculture
complete a study on the process.

The legislation, sponsored by State Senator
Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg), passed unanimously in both the Indiana House and
Senate.

In recent years, the DLGF requested and
received new soil productivity factors from the United States Department of
Agriculture. The proposed new soil productivity factors used for farmland
assessment in Indiana could have caused an estimated 25 percent average increase
in property tax payments for Indiana's farmers, dependent on the county in which
they live.

"Indiana
is agriculture, and Lt. Governor Ellspermann and I appreciate the
General Assembly's bipartisan effort to quickly pass this critical piece of
legislation to help Hoosier farmers," said Governor
Mike Pence. "It was