The Yale expositor., 1912-12-19
WILL COMBINE TWO
TAXATION BOARDS
STATE TAX BOARD WOULD JOIN
FORCES WITH THE STATE
ASSESSORS.
TAX BOARD WILL REAPPRAISE
SEVEN COUNTIES.
Says Electric Railways Should Be AS
sessed by State Officials Only
Many Other important
Recommendations
Recommendations by Board.

Recommendation by Board.
That supervisors begin their
terms OF ONCE in July instead OF
April and have nine months for
their work.
That electric railways and SIM
liar properties be assessed, not by
local assessing officers, but as an
entirety by the state board and
the levy duly apportioned among
the counties.
Asks for power to call assessing
officers together, instead OF the
board being required to visit each
county.
That the state board of assess
ors and the state tax commission
be consolidated.
That all conveyances of real es-
tate name the actual considera-
ton.
The board of state tax commission
ers made it's report to Gov. Osborn
for 1911 and 1912. 1t is the most COM
plete ever issued by this board
past two years the assessed valua-
lions of iron mines have been raised
from $19,625,50S as assessed by local
assessing officers, to SIS, 500 after
reviews had been held
when the board began it's work
in 1899, the real estate of the state
was assessed at $S25,S5S,711, and the
personal property at s142,32O,376, or
a total of both real and personal of
1868, 1S9,OS7.
''In 1891 the real estate was as
sessed at $79G,431 $50, and the per-
sonal property at S156,299,2S5, a total
of 1852, ,115, showing an increase
for the ten year period of $29,426,8S1
in real estate and an actual decrease
in the assessment Of personal prop
erty of $13, 800, and showing a net
increase of the whole assessable
property in the state for the ten years
mentioned of only $i5,407,972.
I'm 1910 the real estate of the state
was assessed at S1,348,901 $50 and the
personal property at $500, ,5OS, or a
total of $1,739, 652, 45S. This was an in
crease in real estate assessments of
$523,O43,239, and an increase in per-
sonal property assessment Of S24S,-
42O,132, or a total INCREASE of SILL
463,S71."
I'm 1899 the per cent of personal
property assessed to real estate as
sessed was 1906 per cent Through the
work of the commission of personal
property assessed is now 10.
AS to the Railroads.
Under the old taxation law, the re-
port shows 101 railroad companies. 20
car loaning companies, seven express
companies and $50 telephone and tele-
graph companies paid in taxes $1,649-
175, while under the new ad valorem
tax law as administered by the tax
board these companies paid the state
in taxes $4,S57,S65 in 1910 and $4,912,-
997 in 1912
During 1912 reviews were held in six
counties, resulting in increased as
sessed valuations by the state board
of $9SO92,1112.
viii Reappraise Seven Counties.
The state tax commission announced
that the commission would start re-
appraisal of the counties of Bay, Cal
houn and Jackson in the lower penins-
ula, and the counties of Algcr, Baraga,
Ontonagon, Chippawa in the upper
peninsula for the coming year.
The work in these counties will
probably take the entire year of 1913
and judging from the raises made in
those counties where reappraisals
have been held, there will be some
big boosts.