Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1919 — EVERY COUNTY IS AFFECTED [ARTICLE]

EVERY COUNTY IS AFFECTED

VALUATIONS INCREASED FROM FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. Orders increasing the tax assessments in Indiana millions of dollars above the figures of the local taxing officials were issued Tuesday by the state board of tax commissioners. The action of the state board is taken under the new law which provides for the assessment of property for taxation at its full cash value. The law also provides that the levies shall be reduced as the valuations are increased so that the taxpayer may not be overburdened. The report of the state board has been awaited anxiously by local officials who desired to -get their figures on valuation and their corresponding new levies. Every County Affected. The state board directed every county in the state to increase some part or all of its assessments from 5 to 100 per cent above the figures made by the local officials. In two instances it ordered reductions in certain classes of property. The board ordered a 50 per cent increase above the valuation made iby county officials on all personal property assessments in Marion county. It ordered a 20 per cen‘ increase on all lots and lands in Indianapolis, and a 30 per cent increase in their improvements. It has yet under considerifo • the question of ordering assessments for approximately 750 corporations in Indianapolis assessed by the county board of review Many other assessments and changes were ordered for parts of Marion county.

Greatest Increase. The greatest increase was ordered I for Gibson county. The increases Iran as high as 100 per cent. Five per cent increases were ordered for | a number of taxing units. Slight reductions were ordered for Noble and Carroll counties on some classes of property. All increases and decreases have to do only with personal property, lots, lands and their improvements. An increase of 100 per cent on one class of taxables in one taxing unit in Lake county'was ordered. Good-sized increases were ordered also for Vigo county ._ St. Josenh county, Allen, Cass and especially Vanderburgh counties came in also for increases of good proportions. The state board has under consideration. the equalizing of approximately 2,000 corporation assessments fixed originally by countv boards of review. These will be disposed of this week. The Theory of Law. The board already has fixed assessments for all property under iboriginal jurisdiction. It has adhered closely to the theory of the new state tax law that property should be assessed at 100 per cent or at its true value. In the hope of applying thoroughly the new law to a situation that had become deplorable in Indiana the state board assessed such property under its original jurisdiction with the new standard in mind hop ing to arrive at a low tax rate by making true valuations. County officials in many localities did not apply the new law as thoroughly as did the state board and it became a case of raising the low assessments in the counties by direct order.

How Our Neighbors Are Affected. Lake. An increase of 100 per cent on all acreage property in Calumet township; an increase of 10 per cent on all lots and lands and 10 per cent on alt improvements in Winfield township; an increase of 50 per cent on all personal property in the corporations of Crowij Point and Dyer; an increase of 40 per cent on all personal property in Center, Cedar Creek, Eagle Creek, Hobart, Hanover, Winfield and St. John townships. Porter.

An increase of 10 per cent on all lands and lots and 25 per cent on all improvements in all the townships, excepting cities and towns; an increase of 10 per cent on all lots and lands and 10 per cent on all improvements in the cities and towns of Chesterton and Valparaiso; an increase of 25 percent on all lots and lands and 25 per cent on all improvements in the town of Porter; an increaste of 5 per cent on all personal property in the city of Valparaiso; an increase of 20 per cent on all personal property in Pleasant township, not including the

cities and towns; an increase of 40 per cent on all other taxing units on personal property. Starke. An increae of 10 per cent on all lands and lots and 10 per cent on improvements in all townships, not including towns and cities; an increase of >4O per cent on all personal property in all townships, 30 peF in the corporation of North Judson, 50 per cent on all other towns and cities. . c Pulaski. "• . An increase of 40 per cent on

all personal property in Cass and Tippecanoe townships and in the city of Winamac; an increase of 30 per cent on all personal property in all other townships and cities and towns. White. An increase of 15 per cent on all lands and lots and 15 per cent on all improvements in Jafkson, Princeton and West Point townships, not including cities and towns; an increase of 25 per cent on all lands and 25 per cent on all improvements in Prairie, Big Creek, Union and Round Grove townships, not including cities and towns; no increase on land and .improvements in the other townships; an increase of 30 per cent on all lots and lands and 30 per cent on all improvements in all cities and towns except the corporation of Burnettsville in which no change is made on lots, lands and improvements; an increase of 10 per cent on all personal property in Monon, Liberty, Cass and Honey Creek townships; an increase of 20 per cent on all personal property in Princeton township; an increase of 30 per cent on al] personal property in all other townships; an increase of 10 per cent on all personal property in the city of Monticello; an increase of 20 per cent on all personal property in Brookston; an increase of 30 per cent on all personal property in all other cities and towns. Benton. An increase of 15 per cent on all lands and lots and 15~per cent on all improvements in all townships not including incorporated cities and towns. An increase of 50 per cent on all lots and lands and 50 per cent on all improvements in all incorporated' cities and towns. An increase of 50 per cent on all personal property in all townships and an increase of 60 per cent on all personal property in the cities and

' Newton. An increase of 20 per cent on all lots and lands And 20 per cent on all improvements in all townships not including cities and towns; an increase of 25 per cent on all lots and lands and 25 per cent on all improvements in the corporations of Brook and Kentland; <n increase of 40 per cent on all personal property in Jefferson and Grant townships: an increase of 10 per cent bn all personal property in Iroquois and I McClellan townships and/an increase of 30 per ’Cent in all other toWnI ships: an increase of 40 per cent on all personal property in all cities 'and towns except Mount Ayr. in which corporation an increase of 20 per cent on all personal property is ordered.