House Republicans pushed for significant tax cuts for months. Senate Republicans were less enthusiastic, pushing back on major reductions up until the very end of session.

The public got its last chance Monday to testify on this session’s major tax cut bill, HB 1002, as House and Senate Republicans haggle over the measure’s final details.

Senate Republicans have long expressed hesitance about the House GOP’s mix of business, utility and individual income tax cuts that will eventually cost the state more than $1 billion a year in revenue.

The move comes after a report by the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette that the lottery planned to forge ahead on “iGaming” without legislative action.

The Indiana Department of Education launches a database to track schools’ spending of pandemic relief funding. The state health department shuts down vaccine and testing sites during the winter storm. And statewide COVID-19 cases are down.

The bill includes a mixture of business, utility and individual income tax cuts. The income tax cut would eventually save a Hoosier household making $56,000 a year about $128 in taxes.

Indiana House Republicans say a bill that would provide $1 billion in tax cuts will attract business to the state, but some mayors are worried about the potential impact on their communities and are planning to fight the cuts.

A major tax cut package that will eventually cost the state $1 billion a year easily cleared a House committee Wednesday.

A proposed tax cut package introduced by Indiana House Republicans this week would cost the state more than $1 billion a year in revenue within the next three years.