Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: every figure Clear Money Guide holds about Indiana, on one page, each one copied from a dataset that cites its own statute or agency. Built for reporters on deadline — take any line, follow the link for the source.
What stands out about Indiana
These are the figures where Indiana differs most from the rest of the country — selected by counting how many jurisdictions share each value, not by editorial preference.
- Formation fee: $100 by paper; online fee via INBiz not verified — the only jurisdiction of the 48 we have data for
- Trigger: the due date of every premium after the first premium — the only jurisdiction of the 47 we have data for
- Authority: department guidance — one of only 2 of 30
- Return deadline: 45 days — one of only 3 of 51
What dying costs here
- Small estate limit: 100000
- Small estate scope: personal_only
Source and full detail: the cost-of-dying index. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Estate and property law status
- Authorized: yes
- Statute or act: Ind. Code 33-42-17 to 33-42-20 (Remote Notary Public), added by SB 372 (2018)
- Effective date: 2019-07-01
- Conditions: Notary must obtain separate remote-notary authorization from the SOS in addition to a standard commission, and use audio-visual technology approved by and disclosed to the SOS. A recording must be captured REGARDLESS of whether the act is completed, with advance disclosure that the session is rec…
- Association name: Indiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
- Death benefit limit: $300,000
- Cash surrender limit: $100,000
- Annuity limit: $250,000
- Aggregate limit: $300,000
- Statute citation: Ind. Code §§ 27-8-8-1 et seq. (Indiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act); section-level pinpoint not independently read
- Grace period days: not less than 30 days
- Trigger: the due date of every premium after the first premium
- Coverage during grace: the insurance shall continue in force; if the insured dies within the grace period, the unpaid premium for the current policy year may be deducted in any settlement under the policy
Source and full detail: notary rules by state · guaranty association limits · life insurance free-look periods · life insurance grace periods. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Working and earning here
- Quit deadline: Next regularly scheduled payday
- Fired deadline: Next regularly scheduled payday
- Statute citation: Ind. Code 22-2-9-2, 22-2-5-2 (per secondary sources – NOT independently verified against primary text)
- Has law: No
- Disclosure trigger: none
- Salary history ban: no
- Local ordinances: none identified
- Authority: department guidance
- Reciprocity: Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
- Contested: no
Source and full detail: final paycheck laws by state · pay transparency laws by state · paid family leave by state · the convenience-of-the-employer rule. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Renting here
- Return deadline: 45 days
- Interest required: no
- Statute citation: Ind. Code 32-31-3-12
Source and full detail: security deposit law by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Starting a business here
- Formation fee: $100 by paper; online fee via INBiz not verified
- Annual report: $50 by paper, filed BIENNIALLY (online fee not verified)
- Franchise tax: none found in the sources searched
- Publication requirement: none identified
- Statute citation: IC 23-18-2-4 and IC 23-0.5-9-19 (articles of organization); IC 23-0.5-9-34 (business entity report) — cited on the official forms; statutory text not retrievable
- Five year total: at least $250
Source and full detail: LLC cost by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Tax treatment here
- Has law: Yes
- Treatment: ordinary income
- Rate: 2.95% flat
- Preferential mechanism: none
- Tax year: 2026
- Statute citation: Ind. Code § 6-3-2-1
Source and full detail: capital gains tax by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
For journalists: how to cite this
Clear Money Guide, Indiana Money Statistics 2026. https://clearmoneyguide.com/state-money-statistics/indiana/. Every figure on this page is copied from a Clear Money Guide dataset that states its own primary source and the date it was read — follow the section links for the statute or agency behind any number. Free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
What this sheet does and does not contain
This sheet aggregates; it does not research. Every figure is copied from the owning page linked in each section, and a figure we do not own is simply absent — not estimated, not inferred from a neighbouring state. That is why sheets differ in length: this one states 40 figures, and a state where we hold less will show fewer. A short sheet means we have less, not that the state has less.
Statutory law changes. Each linked owner page carries the date its figures were read; check there before relying on anything here. See also Indiana financial adviser statistics and all 51 state money sheets.
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