Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1909 — TAX COMMISSIONERS ARE AFTER ALL DELINQUENTS. [ARTICLE]

TAX COMMISSIONERS ARE AFTER ALL DELINQUENTS.

Treasurers Are Ordered to Place All Uncollected Accounts in the Hands of Prosecuting Attorneys. Have you paid your taxes? This may not be any of our business but we are not asking out of idle curiosity, but to inform you that the state board of tax commissioned have taken steps to compel every person to gay up. Treasurer Allman has received the appended letter from the state board which he has had republished and which he will accept as his authority in compelling delinquents to pay up. It used to be said that there were two things one could not escape, “death and taxation,” but some people have done a pretty good job in dodging taxation even if no one has beat the death game in the final windup. The state board of tax commissioners intend to place both in/ the same class again, and Treasurer Allman will give thefai his aid in Jasper county. Here is the letter: Indianapolis, Indiana, December 8, 1909. Jesse D. Allman, Treasurer Jasper County. Dear Sir: / The law makes it the duty of the State Board of Tax Commissioners “to see that all taxes due the State are collected” and “to enforce penalties prescribed by any revenue law of the State for disobedience of its provision.” Upon investigation we find that there is a large amount of delinquent tax that can and should be collected. The law provides "that after you have made diligent effort to collect the same, and have failed, you shall certify such facts to the Prosecuting Attorney, who shall bring such action as is necessary and can attach property and garnishee wages. We must insist that you exhaust every provision of the law for the collection of the delinquent tax in your County. If taxes have to be collected by the Prosecuting Attorney, each person, in addition to paying the amount now due from them, will have to pay all Court costs and the Prosecutor’s fee of ten dollars. Very respectfully, State Board of Tax Commissioners.