Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — TAX BOARD SEEKS CHANGE [ARTICLE]

TAX BOARD SEEKS CHANGE

Would Have Assessing Period Begin January 1 Instead of March 1. The state board of tax commissioners proposes to incorporate into a tax bill, which it will offer to the next legislature, a plan to begin the assessing period January 1 instead of March' 1. It is declared that companies then may supply tax statistics out of reports which they compile for themselves and various other purposes at the end of the calendar year. The assessing period thus would be lengthened from seventyfive to ninety days. The commissioners declare also that townships probably can get better men for deputy assessors if the work is done in January, before spring work begins. J —I