Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1920 — STATE TAX LEVIES CUT TO 20 CENTS [ARTICLE]

STATE TAX LEVIES CUT TO 20 CENTS

The state board of tax commissioners Tuesday reduced the total of 1921 state tax levies from 22 to 20 cents. The present total of levies is 18 cents, fixed last year for this year. On September 28 the board fixed 22 cents as the total for 1921. Following a conference with Governor Goodrich, the board issued the following statement:

“lie state board of tax commissioners today took up the reconsideration of the state tax rate. Owing to payments made into the state treasury from some of the state institutions just prior to the end of' the fiscal year, September 30, and of which there was no previous knowledge, the condition of the state finances was very substantially affected thereby. On representation to the Governor by the auditor of state of the foregoing facts and the confirmation of the same having been had, the attention of the state board of tax commissioners was directed thereto. After going over the figures carefully it was thought that the total state rate could be reduced 2 cents, making the same 20 cents instead of 22 cents, as heretofore announced. “A careful analysis of the figures submitted by the auditor of state disclosed the fact that the administration of state affairs proper was costing the taxpayers of Indiana nothing—in fact, providing a surplus of fees and other revenue over and above expenses. The expenditures for state government under the present administration out of denied iax»£>txD is now wholly for benevolent institutions, highways and schools.”

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