Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — ASSESSMENTS ARE HIGHER; TAXES REMAIN THE SAME. [ARTICLE]

ASSESSMENTS ARE HIGHER; TAXES REMAIN THE SAME.

• Under the plan of assessing all property at 100 per cent of its value, as provided by the new tax law passed by the last legislature, and the insistence of the state tax board that all local tax officers comply with the law, property assessments are going to be much higher this year than ever before. But this does not necessarily mean that anyone’s taxes . will be higher, for if the assessment is increased the rate should be correspondingly reduced. This law pro- ; vides that no more taxes shall be raised under it than was raised last year under the old law. I >The assessment of the land of the various townships of the county as j turned in by the township assessors , will be published in the Republican as soon as the board of review passes upon the assessors’ figures.