Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-12
RATADLES TOTAL
s5I6, 6,324,54 IN
ENTIRE COUNTY
Net Increase s3O,7Oz,sO5--New.
ark's Net Rate $l.9z if New
Law Is Invoked.

Revised figures of the total tax rata
bles of all the property in Essex
county as compiled by the County
Board Of Taxation today show total
valuation Of 516.s24.574. an increase OF
sl,061, 800 over the early estimate, which
makes the actual net increase over
1868 $sO.7o2,5O5. N
To raise the ss.272,es5 required this
year for State school tax and county
puxpo the county rate would be .ssss
instead Of 1851, as based on 1.-THE
original estimate, and the fraction
would probably be dropped by the 10
cal taxing boards thus leaving the
county rate So cents on each 500
valuation.
There is statute of the present year.
however. known as chapter 81 of the
laws of 1910, which was designed to
authorize county boards to deduct from
the ratables of any municipality an
amount equal to any reduction of rata
bles made by the court, State or county
boards during any preceding year or
years.
Should the county board follow the
law of 1910. it would make reductions
approximating ss,000. 900 in the county
totals In establishing the county rate
because of reductions made during the
last three years, principally in Orange
and this city, and be obliged to estab-
lish a county rate of .643s, or 81 cents
on each 500 valuation. This would
leave the net Newark rate 81 80 on each
S100 valuation, as told in the EVE
MING STAR
Orange Chief Beneficiary.
Orange would be the principal bene-
ficiary II the law were complied with,
as the returns of .625 would be
reduced by s3.S4S. .003-almost half the
total reduction proposed in the county
and instead of being required to pay a
county tax of S125.672.40 at a rate OF 63
1t would pay the county 3103, ,040 at a
rate Of 81 on the reduced valuation OF
s16,100, 622, or a saving to the city for
the current year of s22,632.40.
In Newark the reduction, II allowed.
will amount to about 81, 500, 900, making
the total assessable for county purposes
$342. .255.5s0 instead OF s344, 755, $50, the
amount re urned. Unlike Orange, how
ever. the operation Of the new law here.
Notwithstanding the reduction of S2,-
500,000 allowed on account of reduc-
tions of that amount in former years,
would mean a loss to the city of $1a.-
$3.50 because OF the increased county
rate on the reduced county ratables.
This is due to the fact that Newark.
having more than II per cent of all
the county ratables. pays II per cent.
OF. all the county tax. and would have
to contribute that portion of the 1 per
cent. increase in the county rate made
necessary by the $s.000.000 reduction.
If no reductions were allowed this city
would pay a county tax of S2,171, $3.50
on a valuation Of sS44. 4.755,55o at a rate
of SO. and If the reduction is allowed
the city will pay the county S2,190.4S2
on ss42. $50 at a rate OF .64 on each
800 valuation, or a loss of s1s,4si.5o
Question COnstitutiounIity.
The constitutionality of the act of
1910 is questioned. and the county board
may seek the advice of County Counsel
Mum before making the reductions
which the law was framed to authorize
II the law is applied and the county
rate is predicated on an abstract Of
ratables ss,0O0.000 less than the total
ratables returned. it will be admittedly
a false rate arrived at, contrary to the
general tax act of 1903 and the average
rate main stem railroad tax act of
1906
The law of 1903 specifically provides
that all property, cal and personal.
not exempted by the act OF taxed under
specific laws shall be assessed as the
constitution provides by uniform rules
according to It's true value. To permit
IS. 900. 900 of assesssble property known
TO exist TO escape taxation because OF
the biunder of local authorities in for
mer years might be held TO be in vio-
lation of this law.
Railroad corporations might, as they
did in 1907 and 1905 while contesting
the average rate main stem tax" law
of 1906, contest payment Of the 1910
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