Niki Kelly, writing for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports that the tax amnesty program has yielded “$11.8 million in payments or payment-plan commitments” in its first week. That’s nice, I suppose, but it’s really meaningless information without knowing how much of a discount that figure represents. I’d prefer a story that tells us “the State settles for $11.8 million on total bills of $x million owed” so we can compare how much the tax amnesty is costing us as well as how much immediate revenue it’s generating.
Oh, and as a collection attorney, I had myself a good chuckle from the phrase “payment-plan committments.” I get lots of payment-plan committments each and every week. Some people even stick to them.
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