Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-31
DISCREPANCIES FOUND IN AS.
EASEMENTS REPORTS FROM
#. VARIOUS COUNTIES.
LITTLE HEED PAipTo
LIVE STOCK TAX STANDARDS
Surprising Figure. Shown in Count,
Returns on Assessments Of Monies
and credits-Mors Than $25o,0oo,-
olO Subject to Taxation in Iowa
Relative Growth Of Cities Shown.
,neoial to rimes-Republican.

Special to I1meS.nepupACdH'
Des Moines, July 81. - The state
executive council must tomorrow begin
certifying out to the various counties
81 the state the results Of the assess
ment and equalization work and COM
sutatton of the state tax levy. While
che work did not involve so much OF
consideration Of general principles as
last year there has been more detail
work and the council has had many Diff
fcult problems.
It has been almost impossible to get
all the facts together so that the final
computations could be made. State Of
ficials say that this is due largely to
what appears to be the clerical errors
in the making of the reports from the
counties. Corrected reports have been
insisted upon from some of the counties
where errors were apparent.
Livestock Tax Discrepancies.
The most distressing situation of all
developed over the reports as to as
sessment Of livestock. Despite that last
year the council, in its capacity as
board Of review and equalization, fixed
certain standards to which it was in
tended the assessors and local boards
should work, the discrepancies between
counties on some classes of livestock
were even greater than last year. In
other words, some counties, instead of
keeping up valuations to something
near what is right, dropped them way
down even lower than ever before. But
linz m
were returned higher than the standard
set by the council last year. Obviously
to permit these wide discrepancies to
stand would be rank injustice to some
of the counties and clear bonus to
others. And so the equalization process
was gone thru with very carefully.
Labor For County Auditors.
All of the local levies are subject to
revision and change after the aggregate
Of valuation on which the levies are
placed is known. This situation means
a good deal of labor for county auditors
from this time on.
1t has not yet been decided just what
to do in the very few instances where
counties failed to make the raise in
valuation, as figured by the secretary of
the executive council, in accord with
the orders of last year. Some years ago
Dallas county had an experience which
was closely related to what has hap
pened in few of the counties of the
state The county auditor forgot to
I; certify out a part Of a state levy and
4 the result was that the county fell short
about 81 900 in what was due the state.
The county hoard simply ordered a
warrant for the deficiency drawn on the
general fund Of the county and squared
the account in that way.
Discrepancies in Monies Assessed.
While assessors Of the state are find-
ling more than s250,0e0.000 OF moneys
land credits which they are subje sting
h ta:at'eh in iowa en- she 80 per cent
l,as-. yet there is such discrepancy as
TO the money assessed in various coun-
tics Q: the state as to suggest defects in
the system. The counties that loom up
big with large sums of money assessed
for taxation are the following:
a. NV