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Indiana DOR’s E-Newsletter For Businesses

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Indiana DOR’s E-Newsletter For Businesses

December 2019, Issue 10

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Kevin Gulley, Chief Information Officer 

The Project NextDOR team celebrated a rewarding 2019, highlighted by the successful implementation of Rollout 1 on Labor Day. The team worked hard to ensure the project was on time, under budget and delivered two products: a fully functioning tax management system for the agency and an e-services portal (INTIME) for our customers. Our employees and our customers are already benefiting from the additional functionality Rollout 1 enabled, including:

  • The ability to file all Indiana corporate tax returns, (IT-20, IT-20S and IT-65) through Modernized e-File (MeF). To date, customers have e-filed more than 3,000 IT-20 corporate tax returns. Previously, all IT-20 returns were paper filed.
  • Customers can also file amended corporate tax returns and pay taxes owed through MeF beginning in tax year 2019.
  • The launch of INTIME allows DOR customers unprecedented access to their tax records –customers can view correspondence, effectively manage POA (Power of Attorney) relationships and interact with DOR through secured messaging.

Our focus for the coming year is successfully implementing Rollout 2 by Labor Day, 2020. Thirteen different tax types are scheduled for Rollout 2, some include: withholding, retail sales and food and beverage. The Project NextDOR team is currently making progress on the base configuration phase, which is due to be completed on Jan. 17. Base configuration provides the first “hands-on” opportunity for us to evaluate the system and ensure it’s on track to meet our requirements.

Learn more about Project NextDOR at ProjectNextDOR.in.gov.

Elderly Tax Credit (SC-40)

The Unified Tax Credit for the Elderlyhas been simplified for the 2019 tax year.

The June 30 filing deadline has been eliminated, changing the filing deadline for Form SC-40 to April 15, 2020. A claim or modification for this credit is now subject to a three-year statute of limitations. This change affects returns filed for tax year 2019 and beyond.

Military Retirement Income and/or Survivor’s Benefits Deduction Increase

In 2019, the Indiana General Assembly passed a law to allow a progressive increase in the Military Retirement Income and/or Survivor’s Benefits Deduction.

Eligible DOR customers can deduct up to $6,250 plus an additional 25% of their military retirement income or survivor’s benefits over $6,250 for the 2019 tax year. The amount increases over the next three years as shown below:

  • 2020 – $6,250 plus an additional 50% of eligible retirement/benefits received
  • 2021 – $6,250 plus an additional 75% of eligible retirement/benefits received
  • 2022 – 100% of eligible retirement/benefits received

Read more information on the Military Retirement Income and/or Survivor’s Benefits Deduction on our website or in the IT-40 instruction book and 2019 tax year forms.

MCS Carrier Connect

Introducing MCS Carrier Connect E-Newsletter

Do you work in the motor carrier industry or have clients who do? Take a moment and subscribe to DOR’s newest publication, MCS Carrier Connect, to receive updates on changes to motor carrier laws, upcoming projects and initiatives, and announcements. Read the latest issue here.

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New Law and Technology Affects Corporate Tax Returns

For tax years ending after Dec. 31, 2019, S Corporations and partnerships that issue 25 or more Schedule IN-K1s to shareholders or partners are required by law to electronically submit information to DOR.

Schedule IN-K1s can be submitted when filing Form IT-20S or Form IT-65 tax returns through Modernized e-File (MeF) using certified electronic filing products.

DOR is in the process of certifying multiple participating IT-20, IT-20S and IT-65 application vendors. Visit DOR’s Corporate Electronic Filing webpage for more information and a list of approved software.

INTIME, DOR’s new online e-service portal for customers, allows electronic payments of corporate returns including:

  • IT-20, Indiana Corporate Adjusted Gross Income Tax
  • IT-20S, S Corporation Income Tax
  • IT-65, Indiana Partnership
  • FIT-20, Financial Institution
  • URT-1, Utility Receipts Tax

And allows electronic filing of corporate returns including:

  • NP-20 Nonprofit Organization’s Annual Report
  • FIT-20 Financial Institution Tax Return

If you have questions regarding a corporate tax return, you may call (317) 232-0129, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., EST. For questions regarding electronic filing on INTIME, select option 1.

IT-20X Form Phasing Out

DOR is phasing out Form IT-20X. Amended returns for tax periods beginning after Dec. 31, 2018, can be filed by using Form IT-20. The provided checkbox must be marked to indicate an amended return. Form IT-20X should be used only when filing amended tax returns for tax periods beginning before Jan. 1, 2019.

New Schedule for Credit Recaptures

Schedule IN-CR replaces Schedule IN-529R and allows individuals to report the following credit recaptures using a single form:

  • Indiana’s CollegeChoice 529 Education Savings Plan Credit (#837)
  • Residential Historic Rehabilitation Credit (#831)

The Redevelopment Tax Credit (#863) will be added to this list beginning in tax year 2020.

#DORGivesBack

#DORGivesBack 2019 Recap

Each year more and more DOR team members are getting involved in the #DORGivesBack program to allow team members to truly “give back” to their communities around the state.

#DORGivesBack has not only become an award-winning program, but DOR team members have volunteered almost 700 hours throughout 2019 with nearly a dozen organizations.

The latest event #DORGivesBack participated in was at Gleaners Foodbank of Indiana, sorting close to 13,000 pounds of food which provided roughly 11,000 meals to Hoosiers! Be sure to check back for events and updated numbers for the upcoming year.

DOR On the Move

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Visit DOR’s Public Events web page to find out when DOR is coming to your area.

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Death List Report For Vanderburgh County

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Death List wk 12-23-19 to 12-27-19

ADOPT A PET

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Nola is a female American Staffordshire Terrier (pit bull) mix! She’s just over a year old. She was surrendered from her owner due to owner’s declining health. Her adoption fee is $110 and includes her spay, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!

EPD REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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Commentary: Munich, Memories And Time’s Mystery

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By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com 

MUNICH, Germany – The last time I was in Munich I saw a guy who was the spitting image of my younger brother.

This was decades ago, in the mid-1980s, when I went to the Oktoberfest. I saw the young man in one of the festival’s great beer tents.

Same hair. Same deep-set eyes. Same jawline, cheekbones, and nose.

A dead ringer.

If I hadn’t known for a fact my brother was still in school back in the States, I’d have sworn he’d followed me over to Germany.

It either was a tremendous coincidence – of the sort found only in Mark Twain novels and Walt Disney movies – or, somewhere, generations back, we shared a common German ancestor whose genes had been especially tenacious. My father’s family came to America in the late 1800s as part of the great wave of European immigration

I was tempted to try to strike up a conversation with the guy who looked just like my brother to find out his name and where he was from. Two things stopped me.

The first was that my German doesn’t extend much beyond “bitte,” which means please, and “danke,” or thank you.

The second was that the young man clearly had hit the heavy Oktoberfest brews early and hard. He looked more than a little worse for the wear. He might not have been able to understand me even if my German had been as supple as Goethe’s.

Still, I walked away from that moment feeling as if the past had spoken to me, pondering the whims of time and destiny that brought me into contact, so far from home, with someone with a portion of my family’s blood in his veins.

My wife, children and I came back to this lovely German city after spending Christmas in Paris. In the City of Lights, we traipsed over streets my late father-in-law strolled as a boy. His family lived in Paris in the 1930s, and that’s where he started school.

They left the city in 1939, among the lucky ones who got out before the Nazis occupied Paris. My wife’s paternal grandfather and his two brothers had fought on the frontlines for France in World War I. One of them at one point had been trapped under a mound of dead and shattered bodies after a shelling. None of them wanted to expose their families to such horrors up close.

My father-in-law was but a boy when his family settled in the United States.

He grew old enough to serve in the Navy at World War II’s end because some dangers we cannot escape, no matter how much parents might wish their children could.

My father-in-law came home, built a life in New York, married and fathered four children. His first-born became my wife, the mother of our two children.

During these past months, our daughter has studied in England and Scotland. Long, long ago, my mother’s people lived there. Our ancestors, after being transplanted to Northern Ireland, came to what then were the American colonies in the mid-1700s. Desperate to stake out lives they could call their own, they fought in the American Revolution and helped forge a nation.

My daughter’s time in Britain whetted her appetite for family history. Around her studies, she managed to unearth stories of my mother’s people I’d not heard. She rediscovered almost forgotten links in the family chain.

Now, as I amble the streets of this old German city, I find myself wondering what happened to the guy who looked just like my brother I saw in the Oktoberfest beer hall so long ago.

I think about my father’s grandfather coming to America in search of work. About my wife’s grandfather fleeing to the States to keep his family alive. About my mother’s people who crossed an ocean and fought a war to be free from a crown’s control.

So much searching.

So much history.

And now my children walk earth their ancestors, once upon a time, left behind.

We live in a world of mystery.

Too often, we don’t even realize it.

FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

Evansville Gun, Knife & Outdoorsmen Show Ends Today

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Evansville Gun, Knife & Outdoorsmen Show Ends Today
Army National Guard
3300 E Division St, Evansville, IN
From Gunshowtrader.com: The Evansville Gun, Knife & Outdoorsmen Show will be held on Dec 27th – 29th, 2019 in Evansville, IN.
This Evansville gun show is held at Evansville National Guard Armory and hosted by Gun Slinger

 

Sunday: 9:00am – 3:00pm

General: $6.00

Children under 12: Free

Free Parking and Free Coffee

Must be 18 or older to enter.

Sharon Gieselmann Receives UE Exemplary Teacher Award

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Sharon Gieselmann, PhD, associate professor and department chair of the School of Education, received the University of Evansville’s Exemplary Teacher Award during UE’s winter commencement exercise on Thursday, December 12, 2019.

The Exemplary Teacher Award is given by the University to an exceptional member of the faculty in acknowledgment of his or her teaching excellence.

Prior to coming to the University of Evansville, Gieselmann served as an elementary school principal, elementary school teacher, and staff developer. She also provided professional development to schools in the south and midwest as a literacy coach and area manager for The McGraw-Hill Companies. Her research interests include social justice issues in public schools. Her work has been shared at conferences in Moscow, Russia, Paris, France; and Brighton, United Kingdom. Dr. Gieselmann’s most recent work is included in two books for aspiring administrators in university preparation programs, Quandaries of the Small-District Superintendency and Snapshots of School Leadership in the 21st Century; Perils and Promises of Leading for Social Justice, School Improvement, and Democratic Community.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Southern Indiana, a master’s degree in education with an emphasis in elementary education from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a PhD in educational leadership from the University of Louisville. Dr. Gieselmann also has a teaching endorsement in gifted education and school administrative credentials from Western Kentucky University.

Dr. Gieselmann was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and is listed on the School of Education’s Honor Wall for exemplary contributions to the field of education.

CALIFORNIA’S POPULATION SWELLS, BUT LEADERS WANTS MORE IMMIGRATION

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CALIFORNIA’S POPULATION SWELLS, BUT LEADERS WANTS MORE IMMIGRATION
by Joe Guzzardi, December 27, 2019

 

California’s Population Swells, but Leadership Wants More Immigration

The California Department of Finance announced that the state’s population fell just 40,000 people short of a historic 40 million residents. Sacramento demographers, as well as population experts nationwide, agree that California will reach a nightmarish 50 million people by mid-decade.

The easiest way to understand the effect of 50 million residents on Californians’ quality of life is to imagine 25 percent more drivers on the roads, more students in the classrooms, more housing and more patients in hospital waiting rooms.

No one disputes this frightening inevitability. The already overcrowded and housing-short San Joaquin Valley, Riverside County, and San Bernardino county experienced the largest population increases, and can ill-afford yet more growth. California’s relentless and unsustainable year-after-year growth has sent residents with financial and professional options fleeing from the state. For the first time since 2010, more people moved out of the state than moved in.

Unsustainable defined: In 1900, California was home to less than 2 million people, but by 1950 the population had reached 10 million. California’s population nearly tripled in the last half of the 20th century, and its growth has been much higher than that of the rest of the United States. As the most populous state, California has 10 million more people than the second most populated state, Texas, with 29 million people.

Californians can run, but cannot hide, from the consequences of population growth. Between 2017 and 2018, 21,000 Californians moved to Idaho. The result: Boise home prices increased about 17 percent, and new subdivisions and schools were built – the same sprawl elements Californians hope to escape.

Once an eco-friendly paradise, California’s population growth has created a demand for cars that require highway construction and more housing, making environmentally sound conditions impossible. In its October newsletter, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) acknowledged California’s population crisis and its vehicle dependence and noted that the state’s car-based transportation system has stalled efforts to curb greenhouse gases. Roughly 40 percent of California’s emissions come from cars, trucks, and buses.

But SPUR naively called for more investments in passenger rail service to stop sprawl and reduce emissions. SPUR contends more efficient, more frequent rail service would let people leave their cars at home, enable a low-carbon lifestyle and, at the same time, reduce the cost of living for strapped Californians.

In a perfect world, SPUR’s call for more rail transport service would be an ideal solution. But given the colossal failure of former Gov. Jerry Brown’s bullet train – years of delays, cost overruns, lawsuits and, on all levels, staggering ineptitude – rail service expansion is a pipe dream.

Never mentioned in the establishment media or in the think tank analysis of California’s population, sprawl and environmental struggles is the immigration variable. Immigration is not mandated. And while the federal government makes immigration policy, California as the union’s largest state could use its considerable power and influence to help enforce existing immigration laws and to work toward sensible immigration reform.

Instead, Gov. Gavin Newsom and senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, as well as 90 percent of California’s U.S. representatives, are determined immigration advocates, and blind to the dramatic adverse consequences of immigration on population growth and the environment. Foreign-born California residents number more than 10.7 million, or 27 percent, of the state’s total population, and twice the national foreign-born percentage per state.

Even former Gov. Brown had a brief realization of limits to growth. In June 2015 while addressing the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Board, Brown asked, “At some point, how many people can we accommodate?” Then, answering his own question, Brown added, “As we put more people with more impact on this constant natural environment, we run into certain limits.” Brown’s insightful comments fell on deaf ears.

California’s leaders can’t have it both ways. All vigorously assert themselves as pro-environment. But at the same time, their immigration advocacy stances doom the environment. Time is short. California’s leadership needs to put political correctness aside or watch the state fall into further environmental degradation.

FOOTNOTE: Joe Guzzardi is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.

These Department Stores Once Thrived A Decade Ago But Have Since Disappeared

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These Department Stores Once Thrived A Decade Ago But Have Since Disappeared

Bethany Biron
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Clearance sale signs have been a common sight over the last several years.
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It’s not an easy time to be a department store.

The past decade has proved terminal for several retailers that failed to overcome stagnating sales and dwindling foot traffic, but department stores may have been hit hardest of all. Thanks to their enormous physical spaces and particularly sluggish push toward digital innovation, institutions that were once thriving centers of commerce are increasingly falling off the already sparse retail map.

Though department stores like Macy’s and Nordstrom are weathering the storm — or at least staving off a total demise — others haven’t been so lucky. Bon-Ton, for example, shuttered all seven of its department store brands in 2018 after failing to find a buyer post-bankruptcy, sounding the alarm for peers dangling by a thread.

While some of these stores found new life by being absorbed into existing brands or forming an online-only presence, they will never be the same mainstays we remember from the department halcyon days.

We took a closer look at the department stores we bid adieu to in the 2010s as the retail graveyard continues to grow.

Filene's Basement

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Discount retailer Filene’s Basement shut down operationsafter parent company Syms Corp. failed to bounce back from a string of bankruptcies during the increased competition in the off-price market. Filene’s Basement closed its remaining stores in 2011 and has since been resurrected in the form of an e-commerce site.

Henri Bendel

Henri Bendel

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Henri Bendel said goodbye for good in January 2019, closing all remaining stores including its iconic New York flagship store after parent company L Brands decided to liquidate its assets.

bonton closing

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In 2018, Bon-Ton Stores Inc. announced it would liquidateall 256 of its stores across its seven brands, including its namesake Bon-Ton store. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company failed to find a buyer and ultimately called it quits. Today, Bon-Ton has a small online presence.

Elder-Beerman

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Elder-Beerman was part of the 2018 Bon-Ton liquidation, though it had already been reduced to a fraction of its original fleet when several stores were absorbed or transformed into Bon-Ton stores in the years before.

Herbergers

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Herberger’s was yet another victim of the Bon-Ton liquidation.  It was founded in the Midwest in 1927.

Carson’s

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Carson’s, which was primarily located in the Midwest, also shuttered as a result of the Bon-Ton liquidation.

Bergner's

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Bergner’s, essentially Carson’s upscale Midwestern cousin, closed alongside its fellow Bon-Ton brands in 2018.

Boston Store

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Bon-Ton-owned Boston Store, founded in 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also closed its doors for good in 2018.

Younkers

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Last but not least, Younkers said its swan song after operating for more than a century, joining its fellow Bon-Ton brands in the retail graveyard.

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