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PartialProperty Taxes

Overhaul the homestead deduction so every homeowner with an assessed value over $125,000 can deduct 60 percent of their home's assessed value from their tax bill.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

All three cited sources are reachable, support the rated outcome, and the load-bearing quotes appear verbatim. Source 1 (Inside INdiana Business) not only carries the cited "scrapped an expanded homestead deduction and tax bill caps" language but independently documents the promise's exact mechanism and its removal: under Braun's original plan a homeowner with assessed value over $125,000 "would have seen a 60% homestead deduction," and under the amended plan "the deduction would stay at $48,000" — direct proof the specific promised structure was stripped. Source 2 (KSM) verbatim confirms the standard deduction phasing out by 2030 plus the enacted 10%/$300 credit and supplemental deduction rising to 66.7%, documenting that a different homestead overhaul was enacted. Source 3 (WNDU) verbatim confirms Braun signed the bill on April 15, 2025 and the "10% or a maximum of $300 to every homestead" credit. The promise's specific 60%-of-assessed-value mechanism for homes over $125,000 was not enacted (rules out FULL/CHAMPIONED), yet a substantive homestead-deduction overhaul delivering real homeowner relief was signed into law (rules out ATTEMPTED/failure). PARTIAL is the correct, non-overstated middle rating. The modest PARTIAL-vs-ATTEMPTED interpretive room is appropriately reflected in the confidence. The rating is upheld.

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