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Indiana state income tax: engine rules, 2026

How the QuantCalc engine computes Indiana tax for tax year 2026, rule by rule, with the official source for each rule. Verification status: Worksheet-tested (what this means).

On this page: How the tax is computed · Rate schedule · Deductions, exemptions and credits · Age 65+ subtractions and credits · Social Security · IRA, 401(k) and private pensions · Public pensions · Military retirement pay · Roth conversions · Capital gains · Local income tax · Blindness and disability · Part-year and nonresident returns · Worked examples · After 2026 · Not calculated · Verification. Machine-readable: this state's entry in the engine config and the provenance file (key IN).

How the tax is computed

Every step the engine takes for Indiana, in the order it takes them. Steps marked with a filing status or household type apply only there. Each step links the section below that carries Indiana's figures and the official sources for it; the calculation order page describes every step for all jurisdictions.

What each filing status gets, read back from the engine for a household with $1 of income (so below every phase-out and income test):

SingleMarried filing jointlyMarried filing separatelyHead of household
Rate schedule usedsingle schedulejoint schedulejoint schedule, thresholds halvedsingle schedule
Top rate2.95% flat2.95% flat2.95% flat2.95% flat
Standard deduction, under 65$1,000$2,000$1,000$1,000
Standard deduction at 70 (joint: both 70)$1,000$2,000$1,000$1,000
Personal exemptionnonenonenonenone
Age subtractions at 70 (joint: both 70)$1,500$3,000$1,500$1,500
  1. Per-person mode joint returns with the spouse's age given On a joint return with the spouse's age given, every age test the state applies per taxpayer is evaluated for each spouse at their own age. Without it one household age applies to both.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: The engine cannot know the second spouse's age unless told.
  2. Blindness and disability, per person only when the caller says a person is blind or disabled The filer is person one; the spouse counts only on a joint return and only when the caller says so (there is no household convention as for age). Where a state lets a disabled person (and, where it says so, a blind one, or one whose spouse is disabled) qualify for its general retirement exclusion before the age, that person is treated as having reached the age for that exclusion only. Of the 42 taxing jurisdictions, these have a blind amount: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Virginia; these have none: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wisconsin. A disability route is calculated in Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon and West Virginia.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Who is blind or disabled is the caller's statement; the engine has no household convention for it.
  3. Rate schedule and standard deduction by filing status Single uses the single schedule and deduction; married filing jointly the joint ones. Head of household and married filing separately follow the two steps below.
    Indiana's values · engine step (select_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  4. Married filing separately Where the state publishes its own separate schedule, that one (with half the joint deduction unless a separate deduction is set). Where one schedule applies to every status, that schedule unscaled with the single deduction. Otherwise the joint schedule with every threshold and the deduction halved (computed as the joint tax on twice the income, halved).
    Indiana's values · engine step (select_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  5. Head of household The state's head-of-household schedule where it has one, else the single schedule; the head-of-household deduction where set, else the single deduction.
    Indiana's values · engine step (select_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  6. The income total every income test uses Other ordinary income + retirement distributions (before any exclusion) + conversion + federally taxable Social Security + long-term gains + Railroad Retirement Tier 2. It stands in for federal adjusted gross income in every threshold, cliff and phase-out below; state subtractions do not reduce it.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: The inputs are the federal AGI components, so their sum is federal AGI for these income types.
  7. Attributing income to each spouse joint returns with each spouse's own amounts given With a caller's split (the API's spouse object), each spouse's own distributions (employer-plan money included), pension, public pension, conversion, wages and military pay; spouse 2's shares are clamped into the household totals and spouse 1 gets the rest. Without a split, in per-person mode, every item is divided 50/50. Social Security is divided by each spouse's own gross benefits where the caller gives spouse.socialSecurityGross, else 50/50; other ordinary income and gains are always divided 50/50 where a rule needs a per-person amount. The split is used only where a state's rule is per taxpayer; household totals stay authoritative for the base and the income tests.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Equal attribution is the neutral split when the owner of a dollar is not known.
  8. Disability pay only when the caller gives the person facts (a civil service annuity, disability pay, Social Security disability, survivor benefits, an IRA basis or an exception) Each person's disability pay (the caller's disabilityIncome, part of the pension income) is excluded up to the state's cap (all of it where there is none), for a totally and permanently disabled person where the state requires it and below the age where there is one; on a joint return without per-person amounts the cap is doubled only when a second person can qualify (the spouse also said to be disabled where the state requires it). Where the state reduces it, the total is reduced dollar for dollar by the return's income over the threshold (one threshold per return; the separate-return threshold where there is one). The excluded dollars leave the base before any retirement exclusion. Where the state reads it, the plan's minimum retirement age (when given) replaces the age at which the pay stops being excluded.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Blindness and disability): Tax information for seniors and low-income taxpayers (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16936 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-27); Indiana Department of Revenue: deductions (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: ib70.pdf (checked 2026-10-12)
  9. Keeping the per-spouse shares inside the household joint returns with each spouse's own amounts given After the public-pension and employer-pension carve-outs, if the two spouses' remaining shares add up to more than the household's exclusion-eligible distributions (an inconsistent split), spouse 1's share is reduced so they do not.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Input normalisation.
  10. Military retirement pay The state's military rule runs first, on military pay alone, per taxpayer: each spouse's own pay at their own age when attributed, otherwise half each at the household age on a joint return. Exempt dollars leave the base; the rest become pension dollars for the general retirement rules. Where the state lets a disabled retiree qualify at any age, a disabled person is treated as having reached the rule's age.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Military retirement pay): Ib27 (checked 2026-10-12)
  11. One taxpayer's military exemption Exempt: all of it (below the age split, up to the younger cap). Capped: up to the cap for the age tier, plus the earned-income bonus below the age split when the taxpayer's own wages exceed the threshold, less the taxpayer's own Social Security where the rule says so. Percentage: the percentage (below the age split, up to the younger cap). Then the income limit: above it the exemption is lost, or phased out over the range where one is set.
    Indiana's values · engine step (military_exempt_one). Sources (Military retirement pay): Ib27 (checked 2026-10-12)
  12. Capital-loss deduction off the base The deduction comes off the other ordinary income (negative income, as Form 1040 line 7a is), so the base and every state-AGI figure summed from it carry it; WI no more than Wisconsin ordinary income (Schedule WD line 28(c)). States whose base is federal taxable income (with the caller's figure) already have it there and take it only once. Engine 1.13.1: the allowed rental loss comes off the same way, on its own line (rental_loss_deduction).
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Capital gains): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12); Individual Income Tax Overview (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 IT-40 Instructions (archived) (checked 2026-09-28); 2025 Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses (checked 2026-10-12)
  13. Social Security exempt None of the federally taxable benefit enters the base.
    Indiana's values · engine step (ss_amount_in_state_base). Sources (Social Security): Deductions (checked 2026-10-12)
  14. Retirement exclusion (household) The distributions eligible for the exclusion go through the exclusion below. Taxable public-pension dollars left by a cap are not eligible; below the IRA age only employer-plan dollars are.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (IRA, 401(k) and private pensions): Tax Information for Seniors (checked 2026-10-12); Individual Income Tax Overview (checked 2026-10-12)
  15. Conversion taxed or exempt In full-exclusion states a conversion is exempt at the qualifying age (at any age where the state says so). Elsewhere, unless pooled above, it is ordinary income taxed in full.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Roth conversions): Individual Income Tax Overview (checked 2026-10-12)
  16. Long-term gains in the base Where gains are taxed as ordinary income: net long-term gain less the flat exclusion (never below zero), times the inclusion share. Elsewhere none enters.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Capital gains): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12); Individual Income Tax Overview (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 IT-40 Instructions (archived) (checked 2026-09-28); 2025 Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses (checked 2026-10-12)
  17. Exemption for blindness only when the caller says a person is blind or disabled An extra exemption for each blind person (the filer, and the spouse on a joint return). Where the state's exemption is for a person who is blind or disabled, a disabled person below the state's age limit (if any) qualifies too, one exemption per person either way.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Blindness and disability): Tax information for seniors and low-income taxpayers (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16936 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-27); Indiana Department of Revenue: deductions (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: ib70.pdf (checked 2026-10-12)
  18. Dependent exemptions and deductions only when the caller lists dependents An amount per dependent subtracted like the personal exemption: the state's flat amount, or the stepped per-exemption amount the filer gets, or the state's own income steps; nothing above an income limit where there is one; a percentage phase-out per income step where there is one; one more for a dependent in an age band or a student up to an age, for a dependent born in the year, and for a disabled dependent; a deduction per dependent beyond the first on joint and head-of-household returns; and a child deduction by an income table for dependents under an age. A head of household's status exemption that already holds one dependent's amount counts one fewer. Where the state says so, the phase-out is measured on the state AGI (the base before deductions).
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Tax Information for Seniors (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16936 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-27); Indiana Department of Revenue: deductions (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: ib70.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Schedule 2 (Form IT-40) 2025, Deductions (checked 2026-10-01); Indiana DOR Income Tax Information Bulletin #38, Renter's Deduction (Nov 2022) (checked 2026-10-01)
  19. Age subtraction At or above the age: the single amount, or the joint amount on a joint return (both spouses at the household age). In per-person mode, half the joint amount (or the single amount) per qualifying spouse. Plus the low-income amount below the income test; less the military exclusion where the statute says so; limited to the spouse's own income where the statute says so. Where the statute counts income from any source, the taxable remainder of the spouse's own public pension is part of that own income. Where the state says so, the Social Security that offsets a person's amount is that person's own.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Age 65+ subtractions and credits): Tax Information for Seniors (checked 2026-10-12)
  20. Federal civil service annuity deduction only when the caller gives the person facts (a civil service annuity, disability pay, Social Security disability, survivor benefits, an IRA basis or an exception) For each federal civil service annuitant at or above the age (a survivor at any age), the annuity up to the amount, less the gross Social Security that annuitant received (each spouse's share by the stated gross, else half) and, where the state counts them, their Railroad Retirement benefits. A joint return without spouse ages: the household convention (twice the amount when the household age qualifies, the household's benefits).
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Public pensions): Deductions (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16936 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-27); Indiana Department of Revenue: ib70.pdf (checked 2026-10-12)
  21. State taxable income Other ordinary income + Social Security, retirement income, conversion and gains left in the base − standard deduction − personal exemption − age subtractions.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: The order of subtraction follows the state forms; each amount is sourced at its own step.
  22. No tax at or below zero State taxable income at or below zero returns a tax of 0 (credits are not refundable), unless the state has a tax computed apart from taxable income that still applies (next step).
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Every credit the engine carries is nonrefundable, so nothing below can make a zero tax negative; each credit is sourced at its own step.
  23. Separate-return scaling married filing separately For the halved-joint rule, taxable income is doubled before the schedule and the result halved.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Rate schedule): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  24. The rate schedule Each bracket's rate on the part of taxable income inside it, summed. No rounding: the result is carried in full precision.
    Indiana's values · engine step (apply_state_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  25. Credits cannot make the tax negative The credits are subtracted and the result floored at zero.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Every credit the engine carries is nonrefundable; each credit is sourced at its own step.
  26. County income tax The county rate times state taxable income, after credits and not reduced by them — except the county's own earned income and poverty level credits (the federal earned income credit times the multiplier times the rate, and earned income times the rate), which reduce the county tax to at most zero. The rate is the population-weighted average of the official county rates, or the county rate the request gives in localTaxRate (within the state's lowest and highest rate). Engine 1.12.0: with a county code in localities, that county's rate; Maryland's Anne Arundel taxes on marginal brackets and Frederick at the rate of the tier the income falls in, on the whole income (its local credits at that rate).
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Local income tax): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12); Departmental Notice #1, Effective Oct. 1, 2026 (R47 / 10-26) (checked 2026-10-12); Departmental Notice #1, Effective Jan. 1, 2026 (R46 / 01-26) - Wayback copy (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Schedule CT-40 County Tax Schedule for Full-Year Indiana Residents (R24 / 9-25) (checked 2026-10-01); Schedule CT-40PNR: County Tax Schedule for Part-Year and Full-Year Indiana Nonresidents (2025) (checked 2026-10-06)
  27. Qualifying surviving spouse qualifying surviving spouse returns A qualifying surviving spouse (filingStatus qss) is one person on the return, taxed from the single figures with the state's own treatment of the status laid over them: where the state says so, the joint rate schedule, the joint standard deduction, the joint personal exemption, the joint income limits and phase-outs (only those the state sets for joint returns), the married 65+ and blindness amounts, or the head-of-household return; where the state gives the status nothing of its own, the single return. The federal figures the engine derives for the status are the federal qualifying-surviving-spouse ones (the joint standard deduction, the married 65+ amount).
    Indiana's values · engine step (state_tax_effective_config). Sources (Rate schedule): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  28. Railroad Retirement benefits only when the caller gives Railroad Retirement benefits Railroad Retirement benefits are never taxed by a state (45 U.S.C. §231m). Tier 2 (railroadRetirementTier2) is in the income total the tests use but never in the base. Tier 1 (railroadRetirementTier1) is a part of the gross benefits (socialSecurityGross); its share of the taxable benefits is taken out of the Social Security every state rule sees, so a state that taxes Social Security never reaches it. Where a state's worksheet says so, the benefits reduce a retirement cap or subtraction (ID, IN, MD, ME, MN: both tiers; MI: the taxable railroad benefits); Minnesota's and Utah's Social Security rules test an income without them, Minnesota's, New Jersey's and California's retirement income tests an income without Tier 2; Ohio and Delaware test their own AGI everywhere, which never holds the benefits.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Social Security): Deductions (checked 2026-10-12)
  29. The capital-loss deduction the state allows With a net capital loss (capitalLoss): the smaller of the loss and the state's limit (the federal $3,000 / $1,500 where the state follows the federal return; MA $2,000, and no more than the interest and dividends); AL the loss less the part carried in, unlimited; PA and NJ none. It comes off the income total the income tests use (and the Social Security worksheets' income); the gross-income filing test (LA) reads the total before it. Engine 1.13.1: with a rental loss (rentalNetIncome below 0, the federal Schedule E line 26 amount) the state allows, the whole loss where the state starts from federal AGI or follows the federal schedule, none in PA and NJ (rental_loss_no_offset): it comes off the same income the same way; a rental profit is other ordinary income.
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Capital gains): Departmental Notice #1: How to Compute Withholding for State and County Income Tax (effective Oct. 1, 2026, R47/10-26) (checked 2026-10-12); Individual Income Tax Overview (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 IT-40 Instructions (archived) (checked 2026-09-28); 2025 Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses (checked 2026-10-12)
  30. Each spouse's own Social Security joint returns On a joint return, each spouse's own Social Security is the spouse's share of the benefits by spouse.socialSecurityGross when the caller gives it (Tier 1 railroad benefits left out), else half each. It is what the per-spouse rules read: Colorado's per-spouse subtraction, Rhode Island's per-spouse modification, and the Maine, Maryland and other retirement caps reduced by the benefits each spouse received (with each spouse's own railroad benefits where the state counts them).
    Indiana's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Social Security): Deductions (checked 2026-10-12)
  31. Rent and homeowner property tax deductions (MA, IN) MA: half the rent paid on the principal residence, at most $4,000; IN: the rent, at most $3,000, and the property tax paid on the principal residence, at most $2,500; each per return and smaller on a separate return, off income.
    Indiana's values · engine step (st_compute). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Tax Information for Seniors (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16936 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-27); Indiana Department of Revenue: deductions (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: ib70.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Schedule 2 (Form IT-40) 2025, Deductions (checked 2026-10-01); Indiana DOR Income Tax Information Bulletin #38, Renter's Deduction (Nov 2022) (checked 2026-10-01)
  32. Refundable state credits The credits paid beyond the tax (reported in refundableCredits; netTax = totalTax less them): earned income credits as a share of the federal EIC with each state's own age band (OK on the 2020 federal credit, DC's own childless schedule, the CalEITC table, MN's Working Family Credit), the NYC EIC and school tax credits, and the property-tax, renter, grocery and senior credits of MA, MI, NJ, ID, HI, NM, OK, AZ, NY, RI, WV, ME, DC, MN, MO, WI, IN and MT, each on its own income measure. Engine 1.13.1: a part-year NYC resident's school tax credits (the Table 2 proration chart and the rate-reduction amount on IT-360.1 line 47; IT-203 lines 60 / 60a for a part-year state resident).
    Indiana's values · engine step (state_tax_refundable_credits). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Tax Information for Seniors (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16936 (checked 2026-09-28); Indiana Department of Revenue: form download 16915 (checked 2026-09-27); Indiana Department of Revenue: deductions (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Department of Revenue: ib70.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Indiana Schedule 2 (Form IT-40) 2025, Deductions (checked 2026-10-01); Indiana DOR Income Tax Information Bulletin #38, Renter's Deduction (Nov 2022) (checked 2026-10-01)

Rate schedule

A flat 2.95% on state taxable income.

Deductions, exemptions and credits

  • Standard deduction (or the exemption the engine carries in its place): $1,000 single, $2,000 married filing jointly, and the single amount for head of household.

Age 65+ subtractions and credits

  • At age 65 or older: $1,000 is subtracted from the base ($2,000 for a married couple filing jointly when both qualify), against any income. With the spouse's age given, each spouse qualifies on their own age.
  • A further $500 ($1,000 MFJ) when income is below $40,000 ($20,000 married filing separately).

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Social Security

Social Security benefits are fully exempt: none of the federally taxable amount enters the state base.

API value: socialSecurityRule: "exempt". The engine's input is the federally taxable amount; income tests use the sum of the income components as the adjusted-gross-income proxy.

IRA, 401(k) and private pensions

  • No exclusion: pension, annuity and IRA/401(k) distributions are taxed as ordinary income.

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Public pensions

No separate treatment: public pensions follow the rules for other retirement income above.

Military retirement pay

  • Military retirement pay is fully exempt, at any age.
  • Rules are applied per taxpayer at that person's own age when the spouse's age is given. API value: rules.militaryRetirement.treatment: "exempt".

Roth conversions

A conversion is taxed as ordinary income in full. It does not draw any retirement-income exclusion.

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Capital gains

  • Net long-term gain is taxed as ordinary income.
  • Short-term gains are ordinary income.

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Local income tax

A local (county) income tax is added on the same taxable income the state rate applies to. The default rate is 1.75%, the engine's population-weighted average of the official county rates. The API applies this default and reports it in rules.localTax; the planner accepts a specific county rate (localTaxRate, 0 to 5%).

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Blindness and disability

  • An extra exemption of $1,000 for each person who is blind (the filer, and the spouse on a joint return).
  • The API applies these through its blind, disabled, spouse.blind and spouse.disabled fields; absent means false.

Part-year and nonresident returns

  • Part-year resident (IT-40PNR): the tax on the state's own income (what was received while a resident, plus the state-source income while a nonresident), with the deductions and exemptions the form prorates scaled by its ratio.
  • Nonresident (IT-40PNR): the tax on the state's own income (what was received while a resident, plus the state-source income while a nonresident), with the deductions and exemptions the form prorates scaled by its ratio.
  • The ratio: the federal AGI of the state's income over the federal AGI of the whole year, rounded to 3 places, which may exceed 1.
  • Prorated on a part-year return: the standard deduction, the personal exemptions, the age-65 subtraction or exemption, dependent exemptions.
  • Prorated on a nonresident return: the standard deduction, the personal exemptions, the age-65 subtraction or exemption, dependent exemptions.
  • The county tax follows the county of residence or principal work on January 1: included (at the state-average rate) only for a part-year resident who lived in Indiana on January 1.
  • A nonresident's retirement income is not taxable by the state (4 U.S.C. §114); the API refuses it in residency.stateIncome. The credit for tax paid to another state and the earned income credits on these returns are not computed.

Married couples whose residency differs (engine 1.13.0)

With residency.spouse on a joint request, each allowed treatment is calculated and reported in residency.couple; tax is the required one, else the state's default, else the couple's residency.election, else the joint return the request's mfj names. Each rule is quoted from the state's instructions (engine 1.14.0: and its statutes, regulations, bulletins and other official guidance) in the sources below.

SpousesIndiana's rule
One spouse a full-year resident, the other a part-year residenta joint part-year / nonresident return is required.
One spouse a full-year resident, the other a nonresidenta joint part-year / nonresident return is required.
One spouse a part-year resident, the other a nonresidenta joint part-year / nonresident return is required.
Both part-year residents, different resident periodsa joint part-year / nonresident return is required.
Both nonresidents, only one with income from the statea joint part-year / nonresident return is required.

Worked examples

Computed by the engine for the fixed households below (the same ones for every state, so states compare directly). Federal tax is not supplied, so a federal-tax deduction is not taken; the income tests use the sum of the components as income.

Household (engine inputs)State tax
Single, 67: $30,000 private pension, $20,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $24,000 Social Security ($17,000 federally taxable), $5,000 long-term gain$2,961
Married filing jointly, 70: $40,000 public pension, $40,000 IRA, $20,000 interest, $40,000 Social Security ($34,000 federally taxable), $10,000 long-term gain$4,982
Single, 60: $60,000 other ordinary income and a $50,000 Roth conversion$5,123
Married filing jointly, 66: $30,000 IRA, a $40,000 Roth conversion, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable)$3,102
Single, 58: $36,000 military retirement pay and $30,000 wages$1,363
Married filing jointly, ages 67 and 61: $50,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable), each spouse's age given$2,679

Line by line

The intermediate lines the engine records while it computes each example (its detail record, printed as it comes out; lines that are zero are left out). The engine's documentation build checks that the lines add up to the taxable income and the tax, for every state, filing status and a grid of households. Each line links the engine step that produces it.

Single, 67: $30,000 private pension, $20,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $24,000 Social Security ($17,000 federally taxable), $5,000 long-term gain: $2,961
Married filing jointly, 70: $40,000 public pension, $40,000 IRA, $20,000 interest, $40,000 Social Security ($34,000 federally taxable), $10,000 long-term gain: $4,982
Single, 60: $60,000 other ordinary income and a $50,000 Roth conversion: $5,123
Married filing jointly, 66: $30,000 IRA, a $40,000 Roth conversion, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable): $3,102
Single, 58: $36,000 military retirement pay and $30,000 wages: $1,363
Married filing jointly, ages 67 and 61: $50,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable), each spouse's age given: $2,679

After 2026: how the amounts move

A request with projection (API) estimates a later tax year from these rules: every dollar amount and age test below moves the way Indiana's law moves it. Rates and the rules themselves stay the 2026 ones (how projection works).

Amounts (engine fields)After 2026What the law says, and the source
std_deduction_single, std_deduction_mfj, senior_subtraction_single, senior_subtraction_mfj, blind_exemption, dep_exemption, senior_subtraction_lowincome_bonus_single, senior_subtraction_lowincome_bonus_mfj, senior_subtraction_lowincome_agi, senior_subtraction_lowincome_agi_mfsFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.IC 6-3-1-3.5: $1,000 per federal exemption (taxpayer, spouse, dependent), $1,000 more per person 65+ and per blind person, and $500 more per person 65+ with federal AGI under $40,000 ($20,000 MFS); fixed amounts. (Indiana Code text at iga.in.gov is JavaScript-only and could not be verified by the checker; the fixed classification rests on DOR publications printing the same nominal amounts year after year, with no indexing mentioned.)
  • Indiana DOR: Seniors (exemptions) (Indiana Department of Revenue, agency_page): Current exemption amounts. Quoted: "$1,000 exemption for each exemption claimed on the federal return"; "$500 additional exemption for each individual age 65 or older if their federal adjusted gross income is less than $40,000 ($20,000 if married filing separately)". Checked 2026-10-12.
dep_extra_exemption, dep_newborn_exemptionFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.An additional $1,500 exemption per qualifying dependent child under 19 (or full-time student under 24); fixed. (Indiana Code text at iga.in.gov is JavaScript-only and could not be verified by the checker; the fixed classification rests on DOR publications printing the same nominal amounts year after year, with no indexing mentioned.)
  • Indiana DOR: Seniors (exemptions) (Indiana Department of Revenue, agency_page): $1,500 child exemption. Quoted: "$1,500 exemption for certain dependent children". Checked 2026-10-12.
dep_extra_max_age, dep_extra_student_max_ageAttained age: the same age in every year.The additional child exemption applies to a child under 19, or a full-time student under 24, at year end: fixed ages.
senior_subtraction_min_ageAttained age: the same age in every year.The additional exemptions are for persons 65 or older by the end of the year: a fixed attained age.
dis_income_cap, dis_income_reduce_over, dis_income_reduce_over_mfsFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.IC 6-3-2-9: disability pay less $100 per week (so at most $5,200 a year) less federal AGI over $15,000 ($7,500 MFS); fixed amounts. (Indiana Code text at iga.in.gov is JavaScript-only and could not be verified by the checker; the fixed classification rests on DOR publications printing the same nominal amounts year after year, with no indexing mentioned.)
civil_service_deductionFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.Up to $16,000 of federal civil service annuity per annuitant 62+ (or surviving spouse), less Social Security; fixed. (Indiana Code text at iga.in.gov is JavaScript-only and could not be verified by the checker; the fixed classification rests on DOR publications printing the same nominal amounts year after year, with no indexing mentioned.)
  • Indiana DOR: Deductions (Indiana Department of Revenue, agency_page): $16,000. Quoted: "The lesser of the amount of taxable civil service annuity income included in federal adjusted gross income or $16,000". Checked 2026-10-12.
civil_service_min_ageAttained age: the same age in every year.The civil service annuity deduction requires age 62 at year end (survivors any age): a fixed attained age.
  • Indiana DOR: Deductions (Indiana Department of Revenue, agency_page): Age 62. Quoted: "you are at least 62 at the end of the tax year or a surviving spouse.". Checked 2026-10-12.
cap_loss_limit, cap_loss_limit_mfsFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.The state follows the federal net capital loss limit of IRC 1211(b): $3,000 ($1,500 MFS), a fixed amount with no inflation adjustment.
  • 26 U.S.C. 1211 (limitation on capital losses) (Cornell LII (U.S. Code), federal): The capital-loss deduction against ordinary income is a fixed $3,000 ($1,500 MFS); section 1211 contains no inflation adjustment. Quoted: "$3,000 ($1,500 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return), or". Checked 2026-10-12.
in-unified-elderly (a table held in code)Fixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.IC 6-3-3-9: the Unified Tax Credit for the Elderly tables are fixed amounts.
rent_ded_cap, rent_ded_cap_mfs, home_pt_ded_cap, home_pt_ded_cap_mfsFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.IT-40 Schedule 2 lines 1 and 2 (IC 6-3-2-6 and the homeowner's residential property tax deduction): $3,000 ($1,500) and $2,500 ($1,250) as dollar amounts with no adjustment clause; the 2025 SEA 1 fiscal note does not change them: fixed in law.
  • Indiana Schedule 2 (Form IT-40) 2025 (Internet Archive copy) (Indiana Department of Revenue, instructions): Lines 1 and 2. Quoted: "Enter the lesser of $3,000 ($1,500 if married filing separately) or amount of rent paid"; "Enter the lesser of $2,500 ($1,250 if married filing separately) or amount of property tax paid". Checked 2026-10-01.

Enacted for later years, not applied by the projection

None found: the research found no change enacted for years after 2026 beyond the schedules above.

What the engine does not calculate, and known approximations

What the engine does not calculate for any state (itemized deductions, credits beyond those listed, part-year residents, and more) is listed on the calculation order page.

Verification

Worksheet-tested Scenarios replay Form IT-40 lines 1-9 with Schedule 2 (Social Security line 5, military code 632), Schedule 3 (lines 1, 4, 5 incl. the $40,000 / MFS $20,000 test) and Schedule CT-40 lines 1-3, using the TY2025 forms with the 2026 2.95% rate from DN #1 (tests/test_state_worksheets_2.c).