Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — TAX MEN COMING TO JASPER COUNTY SOON [ARTICLE]

TAX MEN COMING TO JASPER COUNTY SOON

Secial representatives of the state board of tax commissioners will be assigned to every county in the state for the purpose of making an investigation of the work of the assessors and compiling an accurate report and detailed information regarding the working of the true cash value system of the new tax law, it has been announced by Fred Sims, chairman of the tax commission. The reports of the representatives will inform the state board of exactly what has been done in each county and the information thus gained will be used as a basis for making recommendations to county boards of review during their sessions *in June. Under the new tax law the board of review may not only equalize assessments as between counties, but may equalize assessments between townships or may order a re-assess-ment of any individual piece of property of any class of property in a township. S. N. Craguh, member of the tax board, who has been making a special study of the working of the new assessment plan, states that he is confident that the Indiana tax duplicate this year would show more than $5,000,000,000 instead of $2,225,000,000, the total assessment of 1918.