Section 6-1.1-12.1-5.4 - Personal property schedule; filing requirements; township assessor or county assessor review; change in property ownership; appeal(a) A person that desires to obtain the deduction provided by section 4.5 of this chapter must file a certified deduction schedule with the person's personal property return on a form prescribed by the department of local government finance with the township assessor of the township in which the new manufacturing equipment, new farm equipment, new research and development equipment, new logistical distribution equipment, or new information technology equipment is located, or with the county assessor if there is no township assessor for the township. Except as provided in subsection (e), the deduction is applied in the amount claimed in a certified schedule that a person files with: (1) a timely personal property return under IC 6-1.1-3-7(a) or IC 6-1.1-3-7(b); or(2) a timely amended personal property return under IC 6-1.1-3-7.5. The township or county assessor shall forward to the county auditor a copy of each certified deduction schedule filed under this subsection. The township assessor shall forward to the county assessor a copy of each certified deduction schedule filed with the township assessor under this subsection.
(b) The deduction schedule required by this section must contain the following information: (1) The name of the owner of the new manufacturing equipment, new farm equipment, new research and development equipment, new logistical distribution equipment, or new information technology equipment.(2) A description of the new manufacturing equipment, new farm equipment, new research and development equipment, new logistical distribution equipment, or new information technology equipment.(3) The amount of the deduction claimed for the first year of the deduction.(c) If a determination about the number of years the deduction is allowed has not been made in the resolution adopted under section 2.5 of this chapter, the county auditor shall notify the designating body, and the designating body shall adopt a resolution under section 4.5(e)(2) of this chapter.(d) A deduction schedule must be filed under this section in the year in which the new manufacturing equipment, new farm equipment, new research and development equipment, new logistical distribution equipment, or new information technology equipment is installed and in each of the immediately succeeding years the deduction is allowed.(e) The township assessor, or the county assessor if there is no township assessor for the township, may: (1) review the deduction schedule; and(2) before the assessment date that next succeeds the assessment date for which the deduction is claimed, deny or alter the amount of the deduction. If the township or county assessor does not deny the deduction, the county auditor shall apply the deduction in the amount claimed in the deduction schedule or in the amount as altered by the township or county assessor. A township or county assessor who denies a deduction under this subsection or alters the amount of the deduction shall notify the person that claimed the deduction and the county auditor of the assessor's action. The county auditor shall notify the designating body and the county property tax assessment board of appeals of all deductions applied under this section.
(f) If the ownership of new manufacturing equipment, new farm equipment, new research and development equipment, new logistical distribution equipment, or new information technology equipment changes, the deduction provided under section 4.5 of this chapter continues to apply to that equipment if the new owner: (1) continues to use the equipment: (A) in compliance with any standards established under section 2(g) of this chapter; and(B) in the case of new farm equipment, on the same agricultural land for which the deduction applies; and(2) files the deduction schedules required by this section.(g) The amount of the deduction is the percentage under section 4.5 of this chapter that would have applied if the ownership of the property had not changed multiplied by the assessed value of the equipment for the year the deduction is claimed by the new owner.(h) A person may appeal a determination of the township or county assessor under subsection (e) to deny or alter the amount of the deduction by requesting in writing a preliminary conference with the township or county assessor not more than forty-five (45) days after the township or county assessor gives the person notice of the determination. Except as provided in subsection (i), an appeal initiated under this subsection is processed and determined in the same manner that an appeal is processed and determined under IC 6-1.1-15.(i) The county assessor is recused from any action the county property tax assessment board of appeals takes with respect to an appeal under subsection (h) of a determination by the county assessor.Amended by P.L. 8-2022,SEC. 8, eff. 7/1/2022.Amended by P.L. 245-2015, SEC. 8, eff. 1/1/2016.Amended by P.L. 288-2013, SEC. 15, eff. 7/1/2013.As added by P.L. 1-2002, SEC.19. Amended by P.L. 256-2003, SEC.5; P.L. 245-2003, SEC.10; P.L. 64-2004, SEC.8 and P.L. 81-2004, SEC.52; P.L. 193-2005, SEC.3; P.L. 146-2008, SEC.126.