The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-24
State Tax Commission Gives Out
Annual Valuations for State,
Increase for kenosha
STATE TAXES TO BE HIGHER
Total Incresoe for This County is Close
to Tk~ee Million Dollars. But it
is in Keeping With Other
Counties in the State

AAC wisconsin state tax com mis-"
sion, sitting as the state board of
assessment, Thursday announced the
annual assessment of all real and
personal property in the state. The
total assessment is So, 256, 800, 900, as
against $2,124,800,00o last year, an in
crease of $131, 500, 600. The total value
OF real property this year is fixed at
81, 80, 265, 161, as against ST., 81, 142, 2O4
last year, an increase of $109, 122, 957.
The total value of all personal prop
erty is fixed at $476, O34, 1889, as against
Sass, 657, 796 last year, an increase of
$22, 377, DAB.
The annual, state taxes are based on
this assessment, which so far as the
state is concerned is similar to the
equalization of assessments annually
made by each county board. The
total amount of state taxes to be col
lected this year is So, $50, 637, divided
as follows: For common schools,
S1, 379, 40; for state normal schools,
$3.50, 900; for state university, $644, 657;
for graded schools, $4,000; for free
high schools, SIPS, ZOO; for interest on
state debt, $157, $40.
These state taxes will require
levy of LILY mills on each dollar of
valuation of property in the state. In
other words after provision has been
made for all town, village, city and
county taxes, LIT mills will have to
be added for each dollar of valuation
for state purposes. The secretary of
state will in few days certify to
each county clerk the amount of state
taxes that his county will have to
raise
The increase in valuations of prop
erty in the different counties is gem
eral, though that of Milwaukee
county is largest, because the largest
amount of taxable property is in that
county. The increase in Milwaukee
county is, in round numbers, $14, OOO,-
600. The next largest increase is in
Dane county, where the raise is &c.
500, O0O The valuation in Dodge
county is boosted So, 800, 900, Marathon
So, 400, 900, Fond du Lac 50, 800, 900, and
LWlnneDagO SI,IUU,UUU.
The assessment of property in Ke-
nosha county for the year as fixed
| by the State Commission is $50, 277, :
| 291 while last year the amount as
Oil. The increase is very near to $3,-
000,0 or the largest increase that
| the State Board has made in regard
to the assessment of Kenosha county
property. Racine county has an in
crease of about $5,OOO,OO The in
crease in Kenosha county is not any
larger than the increase for Racine
county, and, in fact, this county has
shared fairly well in comparison with
the other counties in the state. On
this valuation the state tax to be paid
| by Kenosha county will be in the
neig hborhood of $50, 900. This will be
considerably more than this county
paid as state taxes in the preceding
year but not as much as in other years
in the past.
With the figures that the State Tax
Commission has from Kenosha coun-
| ty the assessment should be decidedly
close to the real value of the property
IN the county as the Commission has
been figuring on the records of this
county for the past six years and has
the report of every piece of property
sold in that time on file in the office
| of the Commission. These figures
will not IN any way coincide with the
report made by the assessors of the
different towns and the city as the
assessment for the state tax will be
much larger than that reported by the
local assessors.