Indiana Code 6-1.1-12-10.1. Persons over 65 or surviving spouse; filing claim
(b) The statement referred to in subsection (a) shall be in affidavit form or require verification under penalties of perjury. The statement must be filed in duplicate if the applicant owns, or is buying under a contract, real property, a mobile home, or a manufactured home subject to assessment in more than one (1) county or in more than one (1) taxing district in the same county. The statement shall contain:
Terms Used In Indiana Code 6-1.1-12-10.1
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(2) the description and assessed value of the real property, mobile home, or manufactured home;
(3) the individual’s full name and complete residence address;
(4) the record number and page where the contract or memorandum of the contract is recorded if the individual is buying the real property, mobile home, or manufactured home on contract; and
(5) any additional information which the department of local government finance may require.
(c) In order to substantiate the deduction statement, the applicant shall submit for inspection by the county auditor a copy of the applicant’s and a copy of the applicant’s spouse’s income tax returns that were originally due in the calendar year immediately preceding the desired calendar year in which the property taxes are first due and payable and for which the applicant and the applicant’s spouse desire to claim the deduction. If either was not required to file an income tax return, the applicant shall subscribe to that fact in the deduction statement.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.40, SEC.1. Amended by Acts 1982, P.L.44, SEC.2; Acts 1982, P.L.45, SEC.2; P.L.55-1988, SEC.3; P.L.291-2001, SEC.132; P.L.90-2002, SEC.107; P.L.154-2006, SEC.13; P.L.183-2007, SEC.2; P.L.144-2008, SEC.14; P.L.183-2014, SEC.7; P.L.214-2019, SEC.5; P.L.257-2019, SEC.19.