Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1919 — JASPER COUNTY TAX LEVIES [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY TAX LEVIES

STATE TAX BOARD HAS FIXED LEVIES UNDER NEW ASSESSMENT. IneHangpolißr Irid., Oclfc 8, 1919. v The tax levies for Jasper county, \mrler the new tax law, were completed today by the state board of tax commissioners. The complete list of levies for the county, compared with the levies for last year, is as follows: New Old Levy Levy Barkley J •’<B $3.06 Carpenter • ••• - 55 Gillam 81 2.80 Hanging: Grove •74 2.47 Jordan 81 2.6< Kankakee 1-26 3.24 Keener 1-29 3.63 Marion 82 2.72 Milroy . *2 2.68 Newton 85 2.85 Remington (town) 1.53 3.80 Rensselaer (city) 1.73 4.54 Union !-25 3.46 Walker ■ • -92 2.75 W'heatfield . . •• • 115 *f2 Wheatfield (town) ~ 1.86 3.94 The new levies are inclusive of all taxes, except the state tax rate, which cannot be announced before rrextrweek. —It ftrill be very greatly reduced. The assessments were -made some time ago. With the tax rate announced, each tax payer will now be able to determine the effect of the new tax system in his own case. In counties previously announced, it has been found that the amount of taxes paid by many people, will be less than under the old tax rates, notwithstanding the extraordinary costs of the war period and the extensive public improvements, such as road building and increased cost of schools. The tax commissioners attribute such results to a fuller luting of taxables, to the inclusion of great amounts of intangibles that hitherto evaded assessment successfully, and to a more even and iust distribution of the tax burden.