The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-09
SOME QUEER FACTS
CONCERNING TAXES
PEOPLE USE CARE IN RENDERING
PROPERTY-STATUTES PROVIDE
A PENALTY.

o. c. Lasher, the legally employed
tax Giiuster or tax ferret, being
aske1 concerning the work he is doing
made the following reply:
81 on getting quite a nice sum as
sessCl, aggregating about 100000 10
date. with quite a number of corpora
tions yet to make answer on notices
mailed only few days ago. The land
ard town lots have not been checked
up yet and that should show more va
uation than the personal property.
Il have found a score or more OF t.
dividua,s and some corporations that
have never been called uron by an as
SCISSOR to render property for tlXation.
Perhaps the tax on the sldps of this
kind will amount to one half as much
as the couny has paid for having the
regular assessments made for this
year.
Some peculiar and surprising facts
appear from an examination of the
assessment rolls of Carter county |
win give you a few examples. Thcre
are only SOS pianos assessed in the
city of Ardmore and only 1863 in the
whole county, but perhaps this is not
as strange as the total value of 5000
on diamonds, jewelry and gold and
silver plate in the city. To look at
tie column giving the amount Of mon
ev on hand and in bank, one would
think that the whole business of tho
county Is done on a credit, but whom
the amount of credits, accounts, notes
and mortgages is given Il then appears
that 70 business at all Is done. II
does not even make a creditable show
ing for a county having one-fourth
the wealth of this. The bank
deposi's of the county ag-.
CREATE about s2,OOOOOO. Subtract
from this the probable half million
Of public money, there is left for
taxation one and one-half million dol
lars. OF this amount there Is on the
assessment for this year only ST.
73N in money given in in the city
and a total of $63,075 in the county,
or credits, discounts, and notes In
the city of Ardmore there Is S92'-
sos assessed and total OF SlA9,-
S53. total for the county. The auto
mobile column records only 10 ma
chimes in the county and all OF nom
in Ardmore. Out OF % bicycles in the
county there are sixteen In Ardmore.
I believe there are as many bicycles
I'm Ardmore as there are dogs, and
n few days ago | overheard a ten
yearold boy say: 'Dog-gone If | don't
bet there's as many dogs in town
as people
Money on deposit in banks ont o.
his state belonging TO residents OF
this county Is taxable in this county
and no doubt there is 100000 es
Gaming taxation in this way, because
OF a misunderstanding OF the law.
I can and will uncover the greater
part of this money and whcn the
50 per cent penalty is added. It will
bring in quite nice sum IN taxes
to the county.
81 contend that II all the prop
erty required by law to be assessed
should be subjected TO tax, the total
tax rate would not be much In eX-
cess Of ten mills, or not over one
hundredth of the value each year
in taxes.
Section 1865 Of the 1909 Statutes
provides for a penalty added to the
value of the property, upon a failure
or refusal of the owner to list, and
We propose to insis. that the pen
atty be added in all cases where
more than the ordinary procedure Is
required to get the unassessed prop
erty. Much property has been given
in to me voluntarily. Every person
subject to tax knows his or her liabil-
ity and obligation TO the state and
county, and each one knows also
whether they are meeting that o.
legation.
Il expect much good to result to
the county from my work, as has
been the case in the other nine coun-