A Ball State study finds that use of tax increment funding is diverting hundreds of millions of dollars away from the local governments that use.

The state's top prosecutor is going after limited liability companies that are scamming tax delinquent property owners out of money and their homes.

A panel of lawmakers is grappling with a growing controversy over how property tax values of so-called "big box" stores - like Walmart, Kroger and Walgreens - are assessed. Millions of tax dollars for communities around the state hang in the balance.