The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-08-30
TAX COMMISSION ASKS
SEPARATE PROPERTY REPORT
Taxpayers This Year Are Con
fronted BY the Duty of Rem
dering Two Reports

ing up his work OF assessing 1
Lander County for the year and re-
ports that this work is fully as far
advanced as usual, with the excep-
ton of returns on land and livestock.
This is accounted for by the fact
that the new law under which such
property shall also be reported to
the Nevada Tax Commission, is in
force for the first time. Mr.. Le-
maire has adopted the policy OF
granting all time possible for land
owners and stock men to prepare
their reports to the State Commits
sion and at the same time file with
him duplicate reports as to facts.
District Attorney A. ]. Maestretti
stated to a Reveille reporter that
these reports to the Nevada Tax
Commission should be given the most
careful and prompt attention, as a
failure to comply carries with it Sc
we're penalties. The first failure is
classed by the law as a misdemeanor
and the penalty is a fine Of $500 or
six months in Jail or both. Further
delay is classed as a gross INSIDE
meanor, with a penalty of a fine of
$1,000 or one year in Jail OF both.
The blanks sent to all land owners
and stockmen in the State by the Ne
vada Tax Commission call for explicit
and comprehensive details with an
oath to be taken that places the man
making it strictly On record, and if
the report to the State does not agree
with the report made to the County
Assessor, also under oath, the COM
| plications that might follow can be
imagined as possibly most unpleas-
ant.
Land owners are required to list
all lands, claimed or occupied or
leased, with the character of the title
to each parcel. Owners of stock
must report separately on stock cate,
beef cattle, calves, bulls, milch cows,
range horses, work horses, saddle
horses, brood mares, stations, mules,
jacks, jennies, hogs, sheep, bucks and
lambs; also wool clipped and all sales
of same since January l, 1913. The
number of sheep sheared and the
number dipped must also go into
| the list.
The natural increase of all the
above mentioned live stock must go
into the report.
The law calls for further details as
follows: Number of each of the
above classes of stock owned January
/, 1913; number sold since January
1; number purchased since January
l; number branded since January l,
and the number owned July l, 1913.
From the time blanks are received
the parties assessed have 80 days in
which to send in the report.
Mr.. Lemaire stated that from a
a conference with the members of
the Nevada State Commission, he
found their minds to be made up for
a State wide assessment rate of 80
per cent upon the valuation of prop
erty. The Commission figured that
it was the duty of Lemaire to return
an increase of $500, 900 on the as
sessed valuation of property in Lam
der County.
Mr.. Lemaire stated emphatically
that he would make his returns on a
40 per cent basis and would take his
chance for a scrap with the Commits
sion. He further pointed out that
if an increase in the percentage basis
was made to fifty, the County Com
tmissionefs have the power to reduce
the local taxation rate, which would
in the end, result in 10 higher taxes
than we now have, unless there are
strong and valid reasons for a larger
income for the county treasury.
1t would seem, therefore, that the
first result of the rigid enforcement
of the Nevada Tax Commission law
will be, not so much to raise the
amount of revenue, as to equalize
the burden of taxation, by compell-
ing honest reports over the entire
State, both from the large as well as
the small holder.
However, prompt reports and
close attention to the matter of
making county and State reports
agree to the letter and figure, would
not be amiss.