The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-28
TOTAL ROLL FOR TAX sac, 600
Many Foreign Corporations Never Tax
ed in the City in the Past Will Pay
Large Sums on Business Done in the
City During During Year of 1911.

Income taxes against corporations in
in the city of Kenosha and foreign cor
porations doing business in the city will
yield $25,885.85 to the city tax roll.
This is the amount of the ST. 900 as
sessed against the corporations which
will be due to the city AFTER the
deduction Of personal property taxes,
should the finance committee find
1t possible to get money enough
to run the city with Que per
cent levy. IF the finance !, m
mittee finds that it is necessary 10 IN
crease the levy to eleven or twelve mills
tax will be considerably less. The COM
mittee has not as yet been able to fig.
ure out the amount that the city will
actually receive from Individual income
taxes but examination of the rolls in
dicates that this will not De less than
$4,000 SO that the total amount COM
ing to the city from income taxes will
be in the neighborhood of $4,000.
These figures are not official but they
make up the estimate which must be
used in making the annual levy. The
amount is considerably larger than had
been anticipated.
The question that is now confronting
the committee is the possibility of the
collection of some of these taxes. In
some cases the taxes are levied against
corporations never heard of in Kenosha.
1t is declared by the assessors of in
comes that these taxes will be paid. Some
tax is levied against corporations which
have gone out Of business since 1911. and
it will probably be difficult matter to
get the former officials Of these cor
porations to pay taxes levied. Several
of the local factories will pay large
sums to the city as income taxes re-
garless OF the fact that they pay large
sums as personal property taxes. The
income tax which the Allen company
must pay the city after the deduction
of the personal property tax, is over
$4,000, and the Simmons company will
increase it's payment to the city by
something like $500. Smaller cor
porations in the city are even harder
hit proportionately by the income tax
law. All concerns having a small per-
sonal property assessment will be con-
fronted with a proportionately larger
income tax and in many cases the in
come tax is several times as great as
the taxes assessed against personal
One Kenosha corporation
that pays on no personal property will
pay to the city an income tax Of
$2O8.42.
One Milwaukee Brewing company
which pays the city personal taxes to
the amount of SIS, will pay the city
an income tax of 1857. 1t is interest
ing to note that the Racine Gas Light
company which has been doing business
in Kenosha for years without paying
any tax in the city vii pay an income
tax to the city Of $596.48. The Stand
ard Oil company is to pay taxes this
year and its assessment in the city
will amount to $12299. There are a
lot of taxes assessed against these for
eign corporations.
1t is evident from an examination of
the income tax rolls that all the ma
chinery of the state will be necessary
to secure collection of some of the
taxes but the Attorney General has de-
clared that this bridge will be crossed
successfully when it is reached and that
the tax commission will be able to en-
force the collection of this tax