Section 50IAC4.2-2-5.1. Amended returns

  1. (a) A taxpayer may file an amended personal property tax return after the later of the following:

(1) If no extension was granted under IC 6-1.1-3-7(b), an amended return must be filed within six (6) months of the original due date of the return.

(2) If an extension was granted under IC 6-1.1-3-7(b), an amended return must be filed within six (6) months of the extended filing date.

  (b) A taxpayer who files a personal property tax return under IC 6-1.1-3 may file no more than one (1) amended return under IC 6-1.1-3-7.5.

  (c) A taxpayer may claim on an amended personal property tax return any adjustment or exemption that would have been allowable as if the adjustment or exemption had been claimed on the original personal property return.

  (d) A taxpayer must file the amended return on the same form prescribed by the department for the filing of an original personal property return, indicating that it is amended in a conspicuous place on the front of the return. The amended personal property return must be completed and filed with the township assessor, if any, or county assessor in the same manner as is required for the original personal property return.

  (e) Except as provided in this article, an amended return remains subject to the review and adjustment of assessing officials in the same manner as original personal property returns.

  (f) The township assessor, if any, or the county assessor must report the assessed value resulting from an amended return to the county auditor on forms prescribed by the department.

  (g) Within ten (10) days of receipt of an amended return submitted under subsection (e), the county auditor shall reflect the assessed value resulting from amended returns on the auditor's records of assessed valuation.

  (h) A taxpayer that files a personal property tax return under IC 6-1.1-3 is not entitled to petition under this section for the correction of an error made by the taxpayer on the taxpayer's personal property tax return. If the taxpayer wishes to correct an error made by the taxpayer on the taxpayer's personal property tax return, the taxpayer must instead file an amended personal property tax return under IC 6-1.1-3-7.5. (Department of Local Government Finance; 50 IAC 4.2-2-5.1; filed Feb 26, 2010, 2:43 p.m.: 20100324-IR-050090576FRA)