Legislative ROI
Your 2025 Legislative Return on Investment
The Indiana Chamber’s lobbying efforts at the Statehouse greatly impact your bottom line. In 2025, the Chamber’s work yielded savings of $5.151 billion for Hoosier businesses OR $1,817 per employee.
As always, the Chamber advocated for and achieved public policy victories that will have a lasting positive impact on the state’s economy and residents. Among them are two far-reaching and long-sought policy priorities for employers: business personal property tax relief and steps to improve the health of the workforce via a tax increase to cigarettes and related tobacco products. The Chamber also staunchly opposed a measure that would have cost businesses statewide hundreds of millions in higher healthcare and employment expenses.
Specific savings are listed below by bill and subject matter, in total and per employee.
Business Savings
$5.151 billion or $1,817 per employee
Health Care & Employment Law
Defeated – Mandated paid family and medical leave program (SB 115): $137.3 million; $48.44/employee
Defeated – Excessive minimum wage increases (HB 1364): $137 million; $48.34/employee
Defeated – Increased unemployment benefits (SB 116): $55.8 million; $19.69/employee
Defeated – Provider choice for worker’s compensation: Indeterminable*
Infrastructure
State infrastructure investments (HB 1461): $347 million; $122.42/employee
Railroad investment tax credit (HB 1461): $14.5 million; $5.12/employee
Tax and Public Finance
Increased taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products: $3.375 billion; $1,190.64/employee
Income tax reductions (SB 451): $175 million; $61.74/employee
Economic development investments (HB 1001): $174 million; $61.38/employee
Business personal property tax reform (SB 1): $144.9 million; $51.12/employee
Childcare property tax exemption (HB 1427): $5 million; $1.76/employee
Preventing double taxation on pass through entity tax (HB 1427): Indeterminable*
Quantum research investment tax incentives (HB 1601): Indeterminable*
Workforce Development
Workforce development investments (HB 1001): $219.9 million; $77.58/employee
Childcare expenditure tax credit (SB 463): $2.5 million; $0.88/employee
Business Law
Defeated – Foreign ownership prohibitions (HB 1032): Indeterminable*
Defeated – Mandates and penalties for hiring undocumented aliens (HB 1531): Indeterminable*
* Financial impacts to business are indeterminable. The total savings is based on the number of cases and limited by the facts in each case.
Total Savings for Indiana Businesses: $5.151 billion Total Savings Per Employee: $1,817
10 employees = savings of $18,171.63
25 employees = savings of $45,429.07
50 employees = savings of $90,858.14
100 employees = savings of $181,716.28
200 employees = savings of $363,432.57
500 employees = savings of $908,581.42
IMPORTANT NOTES: Business impact calculations are based on fiscal impact estimates of the Legislative Services Agency, independent studies, other available data and research materials, and Indiana Chamber analysis. Business impact per employee is calculated by using the estimated number of employed non-government workers statewide in March 2025 (2,834,600).
