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COUNTY OK’S NEW LOCAL INCOME TAX, CLARIFIES WHAT IT’S FOR
Tippecanoe County residents will pay another $1 for every $1,000 they make, starting Jan. 1, 2027, based on a new, 0.1% local income tax approved Tuesday by the Tippecanoe County Council.
The money generated by the new tax – expected to be $6.3 million – will go toward correctional facilities costs.
What those expenses will be, specifically, haven’t been set, county officials said Tuesday.
Ahead of a 6-0 vote for the new local income tax, Jody Hamilton, county council president, said prevailing assumptions weren’t accurate that approval of the 0.1% rate meant the county was ready to move ahead on a 24-bed juvenile detention center pursued and then shelved two years ago on county-owned property just south of the Tippecanoe County Jail. (On the unanimous vote, council member John Basham was absent from Tuesday’s meeting, though he joined other council members in favor of the tax in an initial vote in August.)
“A lot of things that I’m reading and when I talk to people, they automatically think this money is automatically going to build a juvenile detention center,” Hamiton said. “I just want to clarify that, yes, that is one possibility that these funds can be used for, but that has not been approved, yet.”
