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Auditor's Office
440 Third Street • Suite 102 • Columbus, IN 47201
Phone 812-379-1510 • Fax 812-379-5321
County Auditor Duties
I. Secretarial
- County Commissioners
- County Council
- Data Board
The Auditor also:
- The Auditor is the Chief Financial Officer of the County
- Keeps all Official Records (i.e. Contracts, letters of credit,
bonds, minutes, bids, correspondence, both council and commissioners)
- Records Change of Venues
- Annual Office Supply Bids
- Prepares/ Distributes Agendas
- Orders Supplies for Auditor's Office
II. Financial
- Budget Preparation for Council
- Drain Records for Payment/Adjustments
- Tax Sale Appeals
- Initial Determination of Tax Rates for County Unit
- Preparation of CAFR
- Bond Bank Applications Borrowing
- Additional Appropriations
- Transfer of Funds
- Administers All Funds and Grants
- Audit Claims
- Bond Payments
- Sells Aerial Plat Books
- Fixed Assets
- Insurance Ledger
- Payroll
- Employee Benefits
- Personnel Files
- Employee Service Record
- Transfer Fee
- Highway Checks
- Jury Checks
- Election Checks
- Vacation and Sick Days
- Welfare Checks
III. Tax
- Innkeepers Tax
- T.I.F.
- C.O.I.T. or C.A.G.I.T.
- F.I.T.
- Audits Treasurer's Books:
Wheel Tax, Sur Tax, Excise Tax
- Auto Rental & Aircraft Tax
- Property Tax:
Notification of Tax Board Hearings & Rate Tax Adjustment Board
- Tax Rate Chart for Publication (proposed & certified)
- Budget Transfers and Additionals
- Tax Calculations
- Tax Sale-Publication & Records of Sale, Deeds
- Tax Abatement
- Transmit Budget Orders and Tax Rates for all units of Government
in County
IV. Property Records
- Certification of Maps
- Map Billing
- Evaluation Certificate
- Deductions - Homestead, Mortgage, Veteran, Age, Disability
- Maintains Subdivisions, Street Names, Splits, or Combinations
- Certify Signatures for Petitions
- Maintains Aerial Plat Book
- Urban Enterprise Zones
- Certify Property Owners for Zoning and BZA's
V. Personnel/ Payroll
- Employee Files
- Service Record
- Job Classification
- Wage Scale
- Payroll
- Prepares
- Advertises
- W-2s
- W-4s
- 1099s
- Taxes
- Payment of Taxes to IRS, FICA Dept of Revenue
- Employee Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- PERF
- Cobra
- Section 125 Cafeteria Plan
- Overtime
VI. Abstract/Settlement
- Distribution to Taxing Units
- Abstract
- Settlement Spread Sheet to State
- Quietusing of All Receipts
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