Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — JASPER COUNTY NOT RAISED [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY NOT RAISED

STATE TAX BOARD CONFIRMS JASPER COUNTY PERSONAL PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS. County Auditor Schuyler C. Robinson has received notice from file state tax board that the assessment of personal property as reported by the Jasper County Board of Review far 1920 had been confirmed. The value of the personal property as reported and confirmed for 1920 is $6,583,145. This is about $400,000 less than the value of personal property for 1919 after the state board made the horizontal raises. , The 1919 value of personal property as reported by the county board of review was, $5,496,830. The Jasper county ‘township assessors and the county board of reviejv are to be congratulated upon having made their assessments so satisfactory that no change needed to be made. A number of counties have had their 1920 personal property assessments increased by the state. tax board. Among these are: 10 per cent in Newton, Switzerland and Vigo; 5 per cent in Boone, Davis. Gibson, Montgomery, Posey and Warren; 7 per cent in Jackson, and 20 per centkin Fountain and Johnson. - x The state tax boaxd has approved the last order of the Jasper county board of review which legalized the 1919 horizontal valuation raises in the several corporations of the county.