Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1906 — Big Raise In Corporation Assessments [ARTICLE]

Big Raise In Corporation Assessments

'."he 1906 sesuon of the Indiana State boaid of tax commissioners increased the assessments of corpdrate propeity ii 1 tills slate 822,- . 810,851 over I tie assess men tip 1895. Every <j4aST" shat the state board was raised, with the single exception of theexpress companies, the assessment on which waSbretr duced by $38,218. •‘These incretrses-aTe-legitimate i increases, “and not made for the purpose of campaign thunder7 r remarked one of the members of the board Friday. -‘Under the assessments this year, the. corporations, we pass on, pay more of their proportion of the taxes than they ever did before.”