Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1936 — Page 4

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#5 afew years ago.

"tax authorities that ‘sales taxes

limitation was virtually unknown

TENS OF F STATES REJECT AX-LIMIT ACTS

Vote Interpreted to Mean : | That Popular Appeal %. Has Diminished. Voters. of five states—Colopado,

Georgta, Oregon, = Michigan | and Minnesota—re jected. proposals| for

the abolition or limitation of prop- |

#rty taxes Nov, 3, according to a re-

Dp over-all limit, $150 for pities and towns and $1 for townships, except when emergencies are probably will be a subject for debate at the 1937 General Asobly, legislative leaders reported

ters, executive direc Sor, Municipal Finance Officers’ Association, Chicago, interprets [the 1936 vote as meaning that limits do not have the same popular appeal

Not Sound Steps

“Even proponents of over-all imation,” Mr. Chatters said, “view them primarily as devices for forcing redistribution of the tax burden and not as sound steps toward an

ideal tax system. Experience has |

indicated. that tax limits are likely to force adoption of sales taxes. There is general agreement among

alone are not equitable substitutes for any inconsistencies now found in the general property tax.” At the polls this year, voters in Washington decided to continue for another two years the present 40mill limit, and Nevada voted a 50mill limit for the first time. ‘Over-all ‘limits were rejected in Georgia, Oregon and Colorado, and

entirely was defeated. Minnesota voters refused to abandon the property tax for state purposes.

States With Limits During the depression over-all

prior to 1952—voters of Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia put blanket limits into’their constitutions. Similar limits were . enacted by statute in Indiana, Illinois, Rhode Island and Washington, Tax limitation is still an issue in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania legislature already has once approved a drastic-10-mill over-all limit exclusive of debt service, and it will be up for final action at the next session. A 25-mill limit has been mentioned in" legislative discussions in Massa-

Ok chow. that any will lead to inequalities—that some counties will be . affected scarcely at all, while others will have tax rolls reduced as mutch as 40 per cent.

Operating Costs Decline

, Tax experts, according to the survey, disapprove the principle of homestead—or any othér-—exemp-tion, as discriminative in favor of one particular class of taxpayer. Operation of West Virginia’s rigorous limitation law has reduced ¢~y finances to a parlous state, according to the West Virginia League of Municipalities, which just has completed a survey of operating in the 116 largest West Viroe cities, ¢ “Average budgeted operating costs for 1936-37 snag at $8.29 per capita,” says the league, “a decline of $5.46 from the $13.75 average of 1932-33, the last fiscal year prior to adoption of limitation laws.”

Inadequate Protection

In the 1932-33 fiscal year, average operating costs in the 39 largest

cities , was $14.80. The: 'average

dropped to $7.70:in 1933-34, to $7.14 in 1934-35, rose slightly to $8.88 in 1935-36 and to $9.02 in 1936-37. The average of all United States cities over 100,000 is $46.43 per capita, and a government study fixes the average for 94 largest cities at $21.40, “The 40 per cot reduction’ in

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