Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1920 — COUNTY BOARD OF REVIEW CUTS OUT RAISE [ARTICLE]

COUNTY BOARD OF REVIEW CUTS OUT RAISE

The Jasper county board of review has certified to the state tax board the assessment as fixed by the local board in their -regular session last year. The total amount of this valuation was $35,128,410. The state tax board by horizontal raises made the total $43,529,995. This was done by raising the land valuation in all townships 10 per cent. No raise was made in Wheatfield town and the Remington land was raised 20 per cent. The personal property was also raised by the state board. The raise in Gillam, Remington and Rensselaer was 40 per cent and in all other corporations the raise of personal property was 30 per cent. The board in its special session Monday and Tuesday recertified to the state tax board the figures they had made last year. In other words they refused to grant any of the horizontal raise imposed by the state board upon Jasper county. It is nqw up to the state tax board. Whatever raises they make will have to be county wide. It is possible that the state board will raise the land and improvements in the county 10 per cent and the personal property 30 per cent which will total about the same amount as the horizontal raise imposed last fall.