The sun., 1892-04-03
ROBBING THE RICH CITY.
HAysEED HAS BORN pTRTUOUs HANDS
IN OUR WICKED POCkETG


lent Darker Of the Tax Department
gave to q suN reporter yesterday startling
proof that tho city Of New York 10 an
nually robbed By the State Board for the
EQUALIZATION OF Taxes for the benefit Of In
terror counties. An agent Of tn Tax Depart
ment has spent months in tho interior counties
investigating the methods BY which New York
has been made to pay forty-fve per cent OF all
the State taxes.
For years tho State Board for tho equaliza-
tion has added from $1O0.OOO.0OO to $127.-
100000 TO tho assessed value Of real estate In
this city as fixed the Department OF Taxes.
and the property owners have been compelled
10 submit They have known that they we're
being robbed. but they never had tho proof.
The agent Of the Tax Department visited
the Registers oflce in each OF thirteen coun-
ties. He looked up tho property transfers and
ssoertained from them tho actual value Of
property In the county. Ho visited the Tax
Depsrtuent and ascertained tho assessed
value OF the same property.
He found that In Albany county the local as
sessors had assessed property UP to only %
ner cent. OF it's value. as ascertained BY the
Com mmissioner OF Taxes and Assessments.
vhile the local assessors percentage Of actual
value. as declared by the Board Of Edualiza-
don, was 70 per cont His investigation
proved that the actual percentage OF assessed
value enforced By the Board Of Equal
isation. according to values ascertained
By himself. was only 50 per cent To
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percentage value as found bN the Commis,,
osns bosa dsore
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Is Duchess county the local essessors' per;
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ssss sSSsS g Fhsrs should have
age. ascsrfsined By the Commissioner 81 Taxes
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se ont as s.S 81 the S
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~ al 10 STATE .ts1es Ts%many Hall Is
hands are tied. She can do nothing because
tho State comes down on her and demands
ssoa s o md bSasa esSs q the &6S dS
lever never eSuaiises: % Look at the matter q se srmo.
Hes. They don't build an armory up the State
cont q the S cost. and We We have T to pa Day S svsry I
cent Of the cost Of, our own armories. In the
sss
Hho n nQu fNF a NJ hn
sSppe In few oea ees ee
.aa sSsoSte9 me no return H' for s shst Is
"oh. yes. We do get som return The coun;
her paupers and q great part Of her insane;
Win trsnPs and insane people. Trains come
In At night With the same freight These
ttoas. We must support Them: more un.
ssPdHR . Of aes ssse 81 can siand hHsf' ans SS
@ liz sss at "i pansR
are SsM Are
things. No one man feels the force OF the In
being swindled. ear pays s IL ana there ends @ BIT
as Community we feel this injustice. and 1t Is
i5ksome. and we should be relieved from it
out we have no defence now.
Ooubtless the Same Kinney Who "Kited"
Checks In Boston.
BOSTON. April 2.-The man giving the name
Of William NJ Binney. who has come to grief
In London for "kiting" checks. Is thought to
be George H. BinnoJ OF this city. who was
heard from In London recently as being en-
eaged In the tobacco insurance business there.