From the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette:
The state auditor’s office sent erroneous excise tax distributions to Indiana counties last week, a clerical mistake that is being corrected, officials said Thursday.
Excise taxes are collected by the state when Hoosiers register their vehicles. Then the state auditor distributes a portion of the money monthly to counties depending on where the people live. Counties then send it along to local units of government.
Erin Sheridan, spokeswoman for State Auditor Tim Berry, said about $19.7 million is dispersed every month.
But in the March distribution, a state employee accidentally used the individual county amounts from the prior month.
More than 30 counties were underpaid a total of $536,000.
Allen County, for instance, received $987,853 for its March distribution, about $18,491 less than it should have received.
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http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120427/NEWS07/304279958
