The Auditor is the Chief Financial Officer of the County. Every county office deals directly with the Auditor's Office on a regular basis to obtain important financial and tax-related information.
The Auditor's staff is responsible for handling all receipts and disbursements of county funds, creating financial statements for the county, completing annual reports for review by the Indiana State Board of Accounts, and maintaining payroll for all county employees. The Auditor is charged with enforcing property tax laws - particularly those regarding Homestead deductions - in Grant County.
Additionally, the Auditor's office handles all transfers of ownership of real property, provides full-color plat maps for Grant County (the full-color plat book, which includes color aerial photos for the entire county, is $26.75, including sales tax), maintains tax duplicates for all real, personal, mobile home, drainage, and special assessment records, controls distributions of tax collections, special assessments, and special revenue collections for all units of government within Grant County and manages the filing of all applications for exemptions and deductions allowable by state statute.
It is the Auditor's goal that this information be timely, accurate, and easily accessible to the public.
All budgets, salary ordinances, additional appropriations, transfers, and abatement applications are submitted to the County Council for approval.
The Auditor is also Secretary for the County Council and County Commissioners. The minutes of the Council and Commissioner proceedings are maintained by the Auditor's office.
- Secretary To
- County Commissioners
- County Council
- Board of Review
- State Tax Adjustment Board
- County Drainage Board
- Secretary/Chairman to Data Board
- Secretarial
- Record Change of Venues
- Telephone Repair Calls and New Services
- Annual Supply Bids
- Prepare/Distribute Agendas
- Reassessment Notices and Schedules
- Keeps All Official Records
- Contracts
- Letters of Credit
- Bonds
- Minutes
- Bids
- Correspondence for both Council and Commissioners
- Advertisement
- Notice of all meetings: Council and Commissioners
- Bids (Prepares & Distributes)
- Tax Rates
- Poor Relief
- County Sales
- Payroll Claims
- Vendor Claims
- Tax Sale
- Ordinances
- Highway Claims
- Financial
- Budget Preparation for Council
- Drain Records for Payment/Adjustments
- Initial Determination of Tax Rates for County Unit
- Preparation of CAFR
- Bond Bank application Borrowing
- Transfer of Funds
- Administers all Funds and Grants
- Audit Claims
- Bond Payments
- Sells Aerial Plat Maps
- Fixed Assets
- Insurance Ledger
- Payroll
- Employee Benefits
- Personnel Files
- Employee Service Records
- Transfer Fee
- Checks: Highway, Jury, Election & Welfare
- Vacation and Sick Days
- Tax
- Innkeepers Tax
- T.I.F.
- C.O.I.T.
- F.I.T.
- Audit Treasurers Books: Wheel Tax, Sur Tax, Excise Tax
- Auto Rental and Aircraft Tax
- Property Tax
- Notification of Tax Board Hearings & Rate
- Tax Adjustment Board
- Tax Rate Chart for Publication (Proposed & Certified)
- Budget Transfers and Additionals
- Tax Calculations
- Tax Sales-Publication & Records of Sale, Deeds
- Tax Abatement
- Transmit Budget Orders, Tax Rates, and Additionals for all units of government in the County
- Property Records
- Certification of Maps
- Map Billing
- Exemptions: Homestead, Mortgage, Veteran, Age & Disability
- Appeals: Forms 130s, 134
- Maintains Subdivisions, Street Names, Splits of Combinations
- Certify Signatures for Petitions
- Maintains Aerial Plat Maps
- Urban Enterprise Zone
- Certify Property Owners for Zoning and BZAs
- Personnel/Payroll
- Employee Files: Service Records, Job Classification, Wage Scale
- Payroll: Prepares, Advertises, W-2s, W-4s, 1099s, Taxes
- Payment of Taxes to IRS, FICA & Dept of Revenue
- Employee Benefits: Health Ins, Life Ins, PERF, Cobra, Section 125 Cafeteria Plan
- Poor Relief Checks & Records
- Abstract/Settlement
- Distribution to Taxing Units
- Abstracts(2)
- Settlement Spreadsheet to State
- Quiet using of All Receipts
