Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1920 — ALL PROPERTY INCREASED [ARTICLE]

ALL PROPERTY INCREASED

STATE BOARD RAISES LAND AND IMPROVEMENT 11% PERSONAL 25%.. County Auditor Schuyler C. Robinson has received notice from the state tax board that the 1919 assessment as fixed by the Jasper county board of Equalization in. their session last year and their' special session held last Monday and Tuesday had been raised as follows: The land and improvements, county Wide increase of 11% and also a county wide increase in valuation of 25% on all personal property -including Moneys. This will make an endless task for tfie auditor and one. that will be next to' impossible for him to performi Why, the state board should not have had some reasonable consideration for the county auditor is more than we can understand. If the., property X of the county should have been raised it could ,have been done and almost the same amount of tax realized by raising the land 10% and the per-sonal-property 30% and in this way the assessments and the extensions of taxes on the duplicates in the auditor’s office would not need to be changed except in a very few corporations of. the county. If there is any way in which the order can be set aside it. should be done. It will require SI,OOO worth of work by the auditor, for which bub $175 has been provided.' Whether the increase is gr. not we are not capable of judging but we are sure that the most unsatisfactory plan has been . adopted to correct the matter upon the tax duplicates. It looks very much like the state board were offended at the county board for not adopting its horizontal raises, and for failing to do so had taken their spite out on the county auditor.