Credit Brandon Smith / IPB News Hoosiers will get a state tax refund when they file their taxes next year. That’s because the state finished the year with budget reserves of $3.9 billion, triggering Indiana’s automatic taxpayer refund. The automatic taxpayer refund was created a decade ago and only used once, in 2012, sending a $111 credit to Hoosier taxpayers. After that, lawmakers made it harder to trigger. Essentially, Hoosiers get the refund if state budget reserve dollars are more than 12.5 percent of the total budget. And the state's tuition reserve – a sort of rainy day pot for school funding – isn't calculated as part of the total reserve.