The interim fiscal policy committee is looking at technology to improve revenue compliance and reporting.
Improved compliance, of course, doesn’t satisfy anti-alcohol advocates such as Lisa Hutcheson, director of the Indiana Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking, who called for a tax increase, reminding the panel that alcohol taxes haven’t been raised since Ronald Reagan’s first election to the presidency.
Her plea didn’t get very far. “It’s not really our charge” to raise taxes, said Tim Brown (R), chairman of the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee.