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Another Indiana individual income tax cut takes effect Jan. 1

Lawmakers have debated legislation for years that would make school board races partisan.
Lawmakers have debated legislation for years that would make school board races partisan.

Hoosiers who pay state income tax will see a little less taken out of their paychecks in 2025.

Lawmakers passed  a tax cut package in 2022, which included gradually reducing the individual income tax rate down to 2.9 percent. That would make Indiana’s rate the third lowest in the country among states with an income tax.

The reduction was originally set to take place over seven years, and only if state revenues reached a certain growth level.

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But in 2023, legislators shortened that timeline and got rid of the triggers. That means the reductions will end in January 2027.

The latest rate cut will move it down to 3 percent in 2025. For someone making $65,000 a year, that’s a savings of $33.

Brandon is our Statehouse bureau chief. Contact him at  bsmith@ipbs.org  or follow him on Twitter at  @brandonjsmith5 .

Brandon J. Smith has previously worked as a reporter and anchor for KBIA Radio in Columbia, MO. Prior to that, he worked for WSPY Radio in Plano, IL as a show host, reporter, producer and anchor. His first job in radio was in another state capitol, in Jefferson City, as a reporter for three radio stations around Missouri. Brandon graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2010, with minors in political science and history. He was born and raised in Chicago.