Sec. 0.5. (a) This section applies to an ordinance adopted under this chapter and in effect on January 1, 2020. (b) An adopting municipality is not required to amend an ordinance subject to this section as a result of amendments to this chapter concerning vehicle type or weight class for purposes of determining vehicles that […]
Sec. 1. The following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (1) “Adopting municipality” means an eligible municipality that has adopted the wheel tax. (2) “Branch office” means a branch office of the bureau of motor vehicles. (3) “Bus” has the meaning set forth in IC 9-13-2-17. (4) “Commercial vehicle” has the meaning set forth in IC […]
Sec. 10. A person may not register a vehicle in an adopting municipality unless the person pays the wheel tax due, if any, to the bureau of motor vehicles. The amount of the wheel tax due is based on the wheel tax rate, for that class of vehicle, in effect at the time of registration. […]
Sec. 11. (a) An owner of one (1) or more commercial vehicles paying an apportioned registration to the state under the International Registration Plan that is required to pay a wheel tax shall pay an apportioned wheel tax calculated by dividing in-state actual miles by total fleet miles generated during the preceding year. If in-state […]
Sec. 12. Not more than twenty-one (21) days after collecting the wheel tax, the bureau of motor vehicles shall remit the wheel tax to the fiscal officer of the adopting municipality that imposed the wheel tax. Concurrently with the remittance, the bureau shall file a wheel tax collections report prepared on forms prescribed by the […]
Sec. 13. (a) If the wheel tax is collected directly by the bureau of motor vehicles instead of at a branch office, the commissioner of the bureau shall: (1) remit the wheel tax to, and file a wheel tax collections report with, the fiscal officer of the appropriate municipality; and (2) file a wheel tax […]
Sec. 14. (a) The fiscal officer of an adopting municipality shall deposit the wheel tax revenues in a fund to be known as the “municipal wheel tax fund”. (b) An adopting municipality may use the wheel tax revenues that the municipality receives under this section only: (1) to construct, reconstruct, repair, or maintain streets and […]
Sec. 15. On or before October 1 of each year, the fiscal officer of an adopting municipality shall provide the fiscal body of the adopting municipality with an estimate of the wheel tax revenues to be received by the adopting municipality during the next calendar year. The adopting municipality shall include the estimated wheel tax […]
Sec. 16. (a) The owner of a vehicle who knowingly registers the vehicle without paying the wheel tax imposed under this chapter with respect to that registration commits a Class B misdemeanor. (b) An employee of the bureau of motor vehicles who recklessly issues a registration on any vehicle without collecting the wheel tax imposed […]
Sec. 2. (a) The fiscal body of an eligible municipality may, subject to subsections (b) and (c), adopt an ordinance to impose a municipal wheel tax in accordance with this chapter on each vehicle that: (1) is included in one (1) of the classes of vehicles listed in section 3 of this chapter; (2) is […]
Sec. 3. The wheel tax applies to the following classes of vehicles: (1) Buses. (2) Recreational vehicles. (3) Semitrailers. (4) Trailers with a declared gross weight of more than nine thousand (9,000) pounds. (5) Trucks and tractors with a declared gross weight of more than eleven thousand (11,000) pounds. As added by P.L.146-2016, SEC.12. Amended […]
Sec. 4. A vehicle is exempt from the wheel tax imposed under this chapter if the vehicle is: (1) owned by the state; (2) owned by a state agency of the state; (3) owned by a political subdivision of the state; (4) subject to the municipal vehicle excise tax imposed under IC 6-3.5-10; (5) a […]
Sec. 5. If the fiscal body of an eligible municipality adopts an ordinance imposing the wheel tax after December 31 but on or before September 1 of the following year, a vehicle described in section 2(a) of this chapter is subject to the tax if the vehicle is registered in the adopting municipality after December […]
Sec. 6. (a) After January 1 but on or before September 1 of any year, the fiscal body of an adopting municipality may, subject to the limitations imposed by subsection (b), adopt an ordinance to rescind the wheel tax. If a fiscal body adopts an ordinance to rescind the wheel tax, the wheel tax does […]
Sec. 7. The fiscal body of an adopting municipality may adopt an ordinance to increase or decrease the wheel tax rates. The new wheel tax rates must be within the range of rates prescribed by section 2 of this chapter. New rates that are established by an ordinance that is adopted after December 31 but […]
Sec. 8. (a) If the fiscal body of an eligible municipality adopts an ordinance to impose, rescind, or change the rates of the wheel tax, the fiscal body shall send a copy of the ordinance and a copy of a letter from the department of transportation approving the eligible municipality’s transportation asset management plan to: […]
Sec. 9. (a) Every owner of a vehicle for which the wheel tax has been paid for the owner’s registration year is entitled to a credit if during that registration year the owner sells the vehicle. The amount of the credit equals the wheel tax paid by the owner for the vehicle that was sold. […]
