The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-02-01
PERMANENT TAX COMMISSION
ASKED 70 INSURE coRREc-
TtoN OF ABUSES.
STOP EVASION OF TAXES
BY Owners Of intangible Property
Eoard Of Equalization to be \
Abolshed--stop cumula-
Iative Voting.

Springfield, H., Jan. 31.-riDy. Ee-
neen today submitted bits message
transmitting the report OF the special
tax commission, recommending that
the suggestions made BY the commits
sion be made into law. His message
was as follows:
Il Springfield, Ill. Jan. 81, 1911.
Gentlemen of the Firty-seventh Cen
) eral Assembly.
| transmit herewith to Your honor
/ able body the report OF the special tax
}, commission appointed by me under
] the authority Of an Act approved June
!, 3, 1909.
d The recommendations of the report
embrace changes In our present reve-
nue. system ana Its administration as
follows:
| ]. The abolition OF the state beard
,Iol equalization and the substitution
! therefor OF a permanent state tax
!, commission to consist of three PER-
n sons TO be APPOINTED by the governor
by and with the advice and consent
d OF the senate, and vested with the
n following powers ever the subject OF
ii tayation for state and local purposes:
! "a To prescribe forms for asss ss-
inent books, uniform accounts and H.
naibcial and statistical report OF local
tax officials, with mower to require re-
j ports and to examine books and ac-
i counts
\ (b) To confer with, instruct and
II a,lvise local assessors as to their du-
i. ties, visiting each county as often as
necessary and practicable.
Il tc) To require Individuals and cor
A roratioas to furnish information as to
/ capital stock. assets ANA liabilities,
st etc. as reqalred By law
i cd To direct. proceedings and
prosecutions against public officials
and officers or agents of corporations
and others for neglect or failure to
| comply with the tax laws or orders OF
| tho commission.
i (e) To near and determine an
neals from the action of county
boards OF review. with power to sum
mon Witnesses to appear and give
Testimony and produce records, books
and documents.
f) TO appoint special assessors
aud direct the assessment of prope-.
ly in any taxing district wnere IT.
appears. on complaint and after in.
vestigation, that the original assess
ment was not substantially Just and
Equitable.
(g) TIC investigate at any time
on its own initiative the efficiency
I Of The administration Of the tax and
revnue laws; and for this purpose to
have power to summon and examine
witnesses on oath
(hl To confer with the governor
= on the subject of taxation and the All
ministration Of the tax laws, and to
furnish nim with such information re.
lating thereto as no may require.
III To Investigate the tax laws
and their operation in other states
? and countries. and to recommend to
y the legislature such changes in the
= revenue laws as seem expedient.
ID To report biennially to the
= general assembly and to the governor
7. its proceedings and decisions with
q statistics of taxation and revenue,
70 and recommendations,
u tk) To make all necessary rules
and regulations relating to proce-
u dure at Its meetings and to cary out
" the purpose for which the board was
e created
q Accompanying the report Is tho
d draft OF a bill creating the nroreset
state tax commission and prescribing
u its powers and duties.
~ Such permanent tax commissions
d were established In Indiana In 1891.
n In New York In 1885, in Michigan AMI
10 Wisconsin in 1899. and, within the
ls past FIVE years, In New jersey, Tex
ss as, Washington, Minnesota, Kansas.
9 Alabama, Arkansas, Oregon and
ig Oh,1.
2. The commission also recom-
)" mends the amendment Of article TX
of the state constitution by adding
- thereto sectlon IL, reading as follows.
IS Section a. From and after the date
X when this section shall be In force.
IL the powers of the general assembly
le over the subject matter OF the tax
alton OF personal property shall be as
III complete and unrest ficted as they
would he If sections |. 3, ? and 10 Of
% this article Of the constitution did
: not exist; Provided, however, that
'f any tax levied on personnel rroperty
70 must be uniform as TO the persons
q and property OF the sans class with
r in the JURISDICTION of the body imnrs-
ing the same. and all exenaltons
o. from taxation shall BE BY seneral law
&c ard shall be revccable by the general
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