The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-10-21
LITTLE GAIN FOR THE CITY
Most of the Big Amounts on the Roll
Will Be Wiped Off by the Payment
of Personal Property Taxes by Big
Industrial Plants.

County Clerk Russell FL. Jones on
Tuesday afternoon received from the
Wisconsin State Tax Commission at
Madison the annual corporation income
tax roll. The roll covers all corpora
tions in Kenosha county and the total
assessment of income taxes against
these corporations is $73 ,958.48 as com
pared with an assessment of $73,080.23
made in 1914. This brings the total
assessment of income taxes against
Kenosha" county for the year up to q
little over $4,000. Of this amount
more than $105, 900 is assessed against
individuals and corporations in the
city of Kenosha.
There is little of real interest in the
new corporation assessment. It shows
that the incomes Of a few great manu-
featuring companies in Kenosha have
been greater than in the former year,
but for the most part the corporations
show little advance In their earning
There are many things in the roll
which would indicate that some Of the
corporations and especially the smaller
ones had learned the method of the
farmer and had managed toIfgure out
how to escape income taxation.
The smallest amount assessed as
taxes against any corporation in the
county is forty-four cents. There is
another that will pay but ffty-four
cents and dozen whose income tax
will be less than aaaiye dollar bill.
The highest income tax assessed against
any corporation in the county is tax
of $27,857.18. Other big assessments
of income taxes are $13,873.82,
$5,l96.68 and $7,386,14.
An examination of the income tax
assessment as compared with the per-
sonal property roll of the city shows
that the city will receive little added
income from the assessment of incomes
of corporations. In fact nearly all Of
the large amounts assessed for income
tax will be completely wiped out by
the payments of personal property
taxes. If the city realizes $4,000 in
the amount will'be all that is expected
by the members Of the finance COM
mittee.
In recent years manufacturers of the
city have shown willingness to pay
their taxes to the city rather than to
pay part to the city and part to the
county and state and in carrying out
this idea there has been considerable
increases in the amount of personal
property returned for taxation. This
increase in personal assessment makes
it an easy matter to dispose Of the
income tax DOGGY.
Under the law the city receives
seventy per cent of the income tax
collected and the remaining thirty per
cent is divided between the county and
the state. With an assessment of
$105,000 the city WOULD receive about
900 if all Of the income taxes are
paid. The total personal property tax
to be paid by income tax payers will
be much in excess of $4,000 and the
county can only expect the difference.
Many out of the county corporations
are named on the corporation list Of
income tax payers this year and the
city and county will receive from these
corporations small amount of money.
Most of them, however, have some per-
sonal property tax to be paid in this
county and this will act as an offset
to the income tax
The assessment of the corporations
was made entirely by the state com
mission and no local board was called
into conference in fixing these assess
ments. No provision is made for the
publication of this income roll, but like
the individual roll it is a public docu-