Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-04
GUIDE TO rAxPAYINe.
State Treasurer Chamberlain Issues Circular With Points for Property Owners.

As a guide in the payment of taxes on stocks, bonds and choses in actions. the state treasurer, Fred s. Chamber lain, has issued a circular containing desirable information The principal points in the circular which will be mailed on application are as follows:
 Fictitious or supposabie cases not considered by this department
 The rate of tax is mills on the dollar for each year; this is 40 cents a hundred, or at the rate of per cent. for five years.
 Address correspondence and make checks and money orders payable to State Treasurer"
 Tax for time passed, or back taxes, cannot be received after Sept. 30, 1915.
 All blanks for lists will copy.
 Money in bank (sayings bank de- law when certificates of deposit are procured and described.
 Part of a note cannot be exempted and part taxed; 1t is all or none.
 Certificates for shares of stocks are not taxable under this class of taxa ton.
 Please fill blank spaces in heading to lists instead of writing separate in structions on another sheet, and see that your list is signed. Ladies please give street and number. .
 Each bond, note or other chose in action upon which the holder desires to pay the tax. or written descrip- ton thereof, giving name of maker, designating or serial number, and amount of each chose in action, must be brought or sent to this office. Ref erences to former lists or to the treas urer's books cannot be accepted.
 The treasurer is not authorized to receive any tax for shorter period than one year. nor for any fraction of year. The statute authorizes the payment, of a tax of 2 per centum on the face amount of a note or bond for five years, or at the option of the per- son paying the tax flor a greater or less number of years at the same rate"
 Lists are preferable and danger of loss by mail Is avoided when they are department the parties sending them must instruct how to be returned; if to be returned by mail, must enclose sufficient postage stamps for return.
 Securities Exempt.
 The following securities are exempt from all state and local taxation against the owner: United States bonds; any bonds issued under a stat ute of this state which specifically .ex- sued by any city or town in the aid of the construction of railroads, and bonds issued to redeem the same as provided in section 2315 of the general SIdldISSp DOUOS anu OlnSI EnOSeS III aC- ton Of Connecticut railroad corpora tions, both steam and electric, and bonds or other evidences of debt of all Connecticut water. gas, electric heat ing and power companies; also notes secured by mortgage on real estate in this state to an amount equal to the assessed valuation of such real estate All other bonds, notes and chooses in action, including those of all manufac- turing, mercantile and municipal cor poratioQs. are taxable either to the | state at mills per annun, in accord provided in section 2323 of the general statutes.
 Attention is invited to the fact thai all notes, bonds, etc, described in the investment tax law will be subject to | local taxation, except such as shall be presented for exemption to the state treasurer before the day taxes are laid on the lists in the various towns. The l day before the local tax is made for | is the last date, and securities or lists must be in the treasurer's oflce on the 1 day before the list is made for. Local Lists.
 Local lists for taxation are made a. March 1 in Waterbury.
 May 1 in Middletown.
 June in New Haven. July Tn Wailingford.
 1 Sept. in Ansonia-
 | Sept. in Bridgeport. Oct. 1 in all other towns and citiei | of the state.
 | Every effort will be made at thi, | ofi1ce to. avoid unnecessary delay. but
 owners of such property are requested
 to present 1t for exemption as early | as possible, and so aid fin the despatch of business at this office and escapt those vexatious delays that are un- I avoidable because of the press of bust. ness during the last days for exemp- tbiA office two weeks before local liata