Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1920 — TAX BOARD RAISES JASPER CO, [ARTICLE]

TAX BOARD RAISES JASPER CO,

A* a Whdle—ll Per Cent on Real Estate, 30 Per Cent Personal. - The state tax board has raised the certification of 1919 assessments of the county board of review in Jasper county 11 per cent on all real estate and 30 per cent on all personal property, to apply, of course, all over the county. This ■Ura probably make the total assessment for the entire county practically the same as before the supreme coqrt ruling declaring invalid the horizontal increases made by the „ state tax loard in 1919, but some /units will pay a trifle more, some a trifle less. The 1919 horizontal increases in Jasper county, which were declared illegal, raised all real estate in the county, except Remington and Wheatfield, 10 per cent Remington was raised 20 per cent and Wheatfiela was not" changed. 'All personal assessments were raised 30 per cent, except Gillam, Milroy, Rensselaer and Remington, which were raised 40 per cent. The total assessment of the county for 1919, as certified by the board of review, was 335,128,410, and as illegally raised by the state board It was 340,987,420. Fifteen or twenty years ago the total assessment in the entire county wad’ only about 310,000,000. It will be seen from the above figures how values have since been boosted four times over.