The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-07
SAVES TAX PAYERS
COUNTY CLERK CARVIN FORMU-
LATES A BETTER TAX LAW.
As It Now Stands the Whip is Applied to
the Horse that Pulls Carvin Proposes
that Each Piece of Property Shall Pay
its Share of TaXes-A Plan Which AL
lows County Commissioners to Raise
Delinquent Taxes-It Harms Nobody
and Reduces the Tax LEWIS In Cary
ms Mind.

and Reduces the Tax LEWIS In Cary
ms Mind.
NJ. A. Carvin has tax bill which will
be submitted to the legislature the COM
ing week. Those who have examined
the outlines of County Clerk Carvin' s
bill pronounce il a great Improvement
over the present law.
Under the present law it is necessary
to levy additional tax Of about 10 per
cent to cover the delinquent list. Il
the county or city requires a certain
amount of money a tax levy could be
made covering the exact amount il
everybody would pay their taxes when
due, but that is just what all do not do
When the county bids in property for
delinquent taxes that does not give the
money, and the consequence is that the
county comes back on the people who
do pay their taxes to make good the
deficiency. This seems unjust to the
man who pays, and in most cases he
exercises his royal American right to
kick, and he kicks hard.
The men who pay their taxes prompt
~ when due as q rule prefer the old
law which allows property to be sold
and the party who bought il in a cut
throat interest. 1t was to relieve the
throat interest. 1t was to relieve the de-
linquent tax payer of the burdensome
ed, reducing interest from "a to Is per
cent.
The law is a relief to the delinquent
tax payer, but it imposes the burden
on the man who pays promptly. This
10 the average citizen seems unjust.
he thinks if anybody gets favors il
ought to be the man who pays his taxes.
Some of these men who pay taxes
promptly claim that the present law
Furnishes man for promptly paying
his taxes. They declare that it is APP
plying the old rule OF whipping the
hose that will pull while the balkey
horse escapes the lash.
After hearing this matter discussed
a reporter for the Eagle called at the
county clerks Office and asked Mr..
Carvin about his proposed bill II
have it in my mind" said the county
clerk, but do not know that can
make it plain
him and taking a pencil from over his
ear commenced to make some figures.
He then explained that the city of
Wichita was compelled to levy tax
of about 10000. The school tax would
be about 100000, and county tax
would be in the neighborhood of $50, 900.
Then he explained that experience
had shown that of these amounts
about 100000 county. $4,000 school and
$4,000 county take would be paid, leav-
ing a delinquent tax Of about S45, 600.
To cover this delinquent tax an extra
levy must be made each year.
1t is to remedy this seeming injustice
to the men who promptly pay their
taxes that Mr.. Carvin'S bill is formed.
If it becomes a law 1t will authorize the
county commissioners to issue bonds
in denominations Of 800 and $500 or
multiplies of these numbers, drawing
6 per cent interest to run one to three
year. The bonds to be lien on the
property bid in for delinquent tax by
the county.
This would obviate the necessity of
levying an extra tax each year to cover
these deiinpuencies. Ii this law had
been in existence the last three years
the tax levy would have been about
less.
Mr.. Carvin says these bonds could
be sold here at home, as they would
make safe investment for people who
have surplus cash on hand. The county
would be drawing 10 per cent interest
ON the delinquent taxes bid in and
would be paying per cent on the bonds
which Mr.. Carvin thinks would not only
make the county safe but 1t would come
out with neat little sum as clear
profit.
Carvin expects to submit his bill to
good legal authority and have il care
fully revised before presenting ii to the
legislature, 1t is intended that this
bill viii provide each fund in the county
with the money necessary to pay rum
ming expenses, and thereby avoid the
necessity of having county, city and
school warrants floating about, and
The holder being required to go to a
money loaner and have his warrants |
discounted at an exorbitant rate of in |
-erest. There is very strong senti- F.!
nent favoring the raising Of the rate of |
interest on tax sales to the old rate of |
"A per cent. If a plan of the kind adj |
yocated by Carvin can be formulated |
he present rate can becontinued, there |
1y saving to the delinquent as we'll as |
he parties who pay their taxes.
Judge Balderson and A. T. Carpenter /
nave examined Carvjn's proposed law |
md pronounce it just what is needed. |
They both express a hope that the |
legislature will take it UP and pass it
Ii once.