State Budget Sources
An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses

Indiana

This information is an updated excerpt from State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses, a resource published by the Volcker Alliance designed to help public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens fully understand the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make. The guide includes links to budgets for this state as well as legislative analyses of budget bills and treasurers’ or comptrollers’ monthly state cash-flow statements; capital spending plans; reports on public-worker pension funding and returns; and reports by local and national fiscal research organizations, bond rating firms, and associations of state fiscal and finance officials.

Executive and Other Constitutional Finance Offices

Governor’s Office

https://www.in.gov/gov

Office of Management and Budget

Budget, revenues, pension, and other management functions.

http://www.in.gov/omb

State Budget Agency

Budget process and budget documents; tax expenditure, revenue, and retirement system information.

http://www.in.gov/sba

State Budget Agency: Budget Data

Current and past budgets.

http://www.in.gov/sba/2364.htm

State Budget Agency: Revenue Data

Revenue forecasts and updates, as well as tax expenditure studies.

http://www.in.gov/sba/2363.htm

State Budget Agency: Four-Year Budget Outlook

http://www.in.gov/sba/2604.htm

State Budget Agency: Budget Process

http://www.in.gov/sba/2372.htm

Auditor of State

Accounting, financial reporting, and other fiscal oversight functions; Indiana’s auditor functions as the state’s chief financial officer.

http://www.in.gov/auditor

Auditor of State: Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports

https://www.in.gov/auditor/917.htm

Transparency Portal

Budget, revenue, expenditure, employee, performance, and contract information.

http://www.in.gov/itp

Treasurer of State

Investment and other financial functions.

http://www.in.gov/tos/index.htm

Treasurer of State: Financial Reports

Annual reports from the treasurer’s office.

http://www.in.gov/tos/2344.htm

Indiana State Board of Finance

Supervisory board for state fiscal affairs, composed of the governor, auditor, and treasurer.

https://www.in.gov/auditor/929.htm

Legislative Offices and Other Resources

Indiana General Assembly

https://iga.in.gov/

General Assembly Fiscal Reports

Tax and pension studies.

https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/publications/fiscal_report/

Interim Study Committee on Fiscal Policy

https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/committees/i_fiscal_policy_interim_study_com...

Nongovernmental Organizations

Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute

Places more emphasis on local than state government, but part of its mission is to analyze budget and tax policy; member of the Governmental Research Association.

http://www.indianafiscal.org

Indiana Policy Review

Focused on policy and economic issues, but work sometimes touches on fiscal and budgetary matters; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.

http://inpolicy.org

Indiana University Public Policy Institute

Research and analysis on a variety of public policy topics, including tax and finance; provides fiscal benchmarking information for local governments.

http://policyinstitute.iu.edu