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Add Indiana over-65 property tax credit#8308

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Summary

  • Adds Indiana's Over 65 Property Tax Credit beginning with taxes first due and payable in 2026, based on current DLGF/county guidance.
  • Adds age, surviving-spouse age, income-limit, and credit-amount parameters.
  • Adds eligibility and credit variables plus focused tests.

Closes #8195.

Value Review

  • Indiana DLGF guidance lists a $150 maximum credit.
  • Indiana DLGF guidance limits federal AGI to $60,000 for single filers and $70,000 for joint filers or shared owners.
  • Indiana DLGF guidance says the credit applies for 2025 Pay 2026 property taxes and notes the credit income limits are not annually adjusted by Social Security COLA.
  • DLGF and county guidance list age 65 as the primary age threshold and age 60 for a qualifying surviving, un-remarried spouse.

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Modeling Notes

  • This PR models the flat $150 Over 65 Credit only. The separate Over 65 Circuit Breaker Credit remains follow-up work because it depends on prior-year property tax liability and tax-growth limits.
  • The model uses adjusted_gross_income as the available federal AGI proxy.
  • The model uses positive real_estate_taxes as the available homeowner/property-tax proxy and does not reduce the credit for partial ownership shares when not all joint tenants or tenants in common are age 65 or older.

Tests

  • uv run policyengine-core test policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/in/tax/property/over_65_credit -c policyengine_us
  • uv run pytest policyengine_us/tests/test_parameter_files.py policyengine_us/tests/test_system_import.py -q
  • uv run --extra dev ruff check policyengine_us/variables/gov/states/in/tax/property/over_65_credit

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