By Dan Spalding
News Now Warsaw
WARSAW — Ongoing property tax reforms in Indiana are expected to affect local tax revenues, and as a result, state law now requires counties to assemble a special committee that will consider raising local income tax.
The special committee is known as MUST, which is short for a Municipal Unit Strategic Task Force, and representatives of all taxing units in the county are expected to gather at 8.30 a.m. Thursday at the courthouse in Warsaw.
Kosciusko County Councilman Joe Irwin, who was chosen to organize the meeting, said the Musk Committee has until 2028 to make a decision.
“The hope is that everybody’s in good enough shape that we don’t have to do anything. That’s at least my hope,” Irwin said Tuesday.
The complicating factor is that the Republican-led General Assembly is expected to consider significant changes to tax policy when they meet in January.
“The county’s stance is that there are two more legislative sessions between now and then, and we’d really like to see what the state ends up doing. They’ve made it pretty clear they’re not done tweaking things,” he said.
Thursday’s must meeting is open to the public. Representatives from across the county are expected to attend.
“We all want to know where we’re at. So I think it’s important that everybody’s there and that we have these conversations,” Irwin said.
