Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Tax Assessor’s Power. [ARTICLE]

Tax Assessor’s Power.

The Supreme court of Indiana lie d yesterday in the case 0:1 appeal of the Co-operative Building & Loan Association vs. the State on relation oftbe county assessor of Jackson county, that the law gives the assessor the right to examine the records of all public offices and the books and papers of alOeorporations and taxpayers, without making charges in sfearching.ftfr taxable property, and their right to make such examinations (.an be exercised not only from the first of Arpil to the first of June when the yearly assessment is made, but extends through the whole year, and may relate bar k to the enactment of the law in 1891 and that the search for omitted property ma be con ducted independently of any proceeding to add'omitted property to the duplicate.