Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — PAYS 6 CENTS TO COLLECT 5 [ARTICLE]

PAYS 6 CENTS TO COLLECT 5

Tax Collecting Not Always Profitable Job, According to County Treasurer. Wichita, Kan. —Collecting taxes is not always a profitable job, according to County Treasurer W. R. Hewey. The other day a man living out of town wrote to the county treasurer, asking .the amount of his taxes on a small lot In the outskirts of the town. They were five cents, so he was Informed by letter, costing the county treasurer a three-eent stamp. In a few days a letter was received* with the five cents. He had to hare a receipt returned to him, costing another three cents.