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Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Braun is adjusting his property tax reform proposal, just days after he unveiled it.

Braun is responding to criticism over the plan’s uneven impact.

Braun’s original proposal made major changes to the homestead deductions used to calculate property tax bills. Braun said it would reset everyone’s bills to 2021 levels.

But that wasn’t true. For homes with values of at least 125 thousand dollars, homeowners paying a tax rate of about two-and-a-half percent or more wouldn’t see any savings under Braun’s plan. And in Indiana’s 10 most populous counties — which account for half the state’s population — more than half of the taxdistricts had rates above two-point-five percent.

So now, Braun says homeowners’ tax bills would reduce to either what they paid in 2021 or the new calculation in his plan, whichever is lower.

Still no word what the proposal would cost local governments, as property taxes largely pay for schools, police and fire departments