Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-11-10
Supplemental Report Based
on 1913 Assessment is
Filed.
CITY LOSES $4,679.OS.
Under Plan Sixty-Seven Counties and
Fifteen Cities Would Gain in Rev.
cnuc-C0uld Reduce Tax Rate.

Richmond, Nov. 10.-Supplement-
ing his tentative plan for segregation
OF taxes. State Auditor G. Lee Moore
has issued revision based on the
l?l; assessment, figures which were
not available when he made public
his tentative plan of taxation last
July. 4 practical objection which
was raised to the tentative plan when
first published was that q majority
of the counties of the Commonwealth
suffered q loss in revenue under its
acti.! workings However meritor-
ious the plan in itself, and however
lust it might be rs q plan OF taxation,
j; was felt that it would be hard to
convince the representatives of ma
iurity of the counties in the State
that it was their duty. to give up ben
clitS TO which they were not entitled.
and u come in and vote for q new
plan Of taxation. AS q matter of
practical politics. therefore. it was
felt in many directions that, what
ever mi@h. be its merits, the plan had
little chance of adoption in the form
presented.
The revised figures, based on la
Ter assessment and carefully checked
and corrected. show that. if put into
oneration on tho present basis, thirty
three counties would suffer loss, and
sixty-seven would show gains in. in
come; that four cities would suffer
loss, md fifteen cities make gains. The
city Of Richmond. which. under the
original plan, would have suffered !"
loss in annual income. under the re-
viscd plan Of segregation, based on
Vhu 1919 assessment. would gain
SlSS,03l.Sl.
Alexandria will lose S4,679.0S un-
der the latest plan.
AS TO the counties which on the
face Of the plan lose in income, Mr..
Moore pointed out that unaer ms
plan of segregation, which allows all
land and property taxes to 90 to the
counties and cities, the counties
themselves could adjust their assess
merits to meet the new conditions. II,
because of low assessment of proper
Ia
"omery and Russell showed loss,
they had only to secure an assess
n,ept ut something like 4 fair market
value to obtain an increased income
with low tax rate, and, with all the
tax going directly to the county IN
stead of to the State, the incentive
for q fair assessment and low rate
would be greatly increased.
Elaborate statistical tables accom-
pany the supplemental plan showing
its actual working effect based on lhe
1919 assessment. As worked out IN
those tables the total of State t'Nes
for 1913 released to counties ana
cities woul, be:
Amount Of State taxes assessed OH
real estate-counties. Sl,O75'Zl"'N'
cities. ss52.3s9 y; aggregate ST.
927,Go2.29. 49,
Amount Of State taxes assessed vi
tangible PERSONA! property-coun'leS
seGS. 1855; cities, s9o,594.27: asgre'
gate, 359.32112
Amount of State taxes assessed OF
intangible personal propertF-couil
ties. 1896. G.lOG..i5; cities, s2lo'o'"'4o
aggregate. $459,T79.9l.
Total Of State taxes assessed OF
real estate, tangible and intangible
nersonal propcrty-counties, Sl,5so'
o56.l7: cities. $l.l5o,6 ,656 S.; aggre
gate. s2.739.7 1882.
Losses sustained by counties ant
cites by taking from them the take:
on railroad property. including
tho tax on rolling stock distributes
according to the act Of 1912, ant
taxes on bank stock and capitatinl
stock.
Taxes now received by counties an
c;t;e, on railroad property, includin
lax on rolling stock as distributed b
III, act of l912--count'es, sl035
ocoos: cases. $s7l, l,5S2.sl; sgsre
rat, sI ao6 7o2 n.
Taxes row reeeived by ealmde
nn3 cities on bank stotk--coun;ir: