Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — A POOR JOB OF PATCHWORK [ARTICLE]

A POOR JOB OF PATCHWORK

Is the Term Applied to the Tax Curative Law. The way the special session of the legislature patched up the tax tangle leaves It In about the same sort of muddle it was in after the supreme court got through with it. The law, in effect, provides for the county boards of review to be called in special session and fixing the 1919 assessments at the very figures fixed by the state tax board in its horizontal increases, which were declared illegal by the supreme court. This is what the sponsors of the law want and no doubt what will be done in most cases, which will leave the matter just where it is at present. Of course a taxpayer who thinks he was over-assessed can appear before the board and if he can satisfy it that such was the case, the board can reduce such assessment That is all. The meaning of the law, however, is Interpreted differently and is so ambiguous in its language that no two people can arrive at the same conclusions. ' It will have to be threshed out again in the courts, is the opinion of lawyers.