Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19
SENATE MEMBERS CANNOT
ASCERTAIN AMOUNT OF
REVENUE PRODUCED BY
TAX COMMISSION.
COUNTIES slim ON PROPERTY
Board Has Cost the State More
Than $4,000 in Only Six s
Years. ,,

ludDIulN u NOuCI lOI Lue accuracy
of their conclusions the senate men,
,bers of the joint committee to inves-
tigate the state tax commission yes
terday submitted their report to the
senate 1t IS without recommends
tions and indicates that by unverified
figures the tax commission in six
years added a little more than $1,000
900 of assessable property. This,
however, does not represent the tax
paid or revenue produced by the COM
mission which the senate members
frankly admit they cannot ascertain
in the time given for such an investi-
cation. The report follows: @@
Your Joint Committee consisting
of three members from the House
and three members from the Senate,
appointed for the purpose of investi-
eating the North Dakota Tax Com
mission under the Martin Resohl-
ton which reads as follows:
THAT committee of six be ap-
pointed, three from the House and
three from the Senate, to make in
Guiry in the Office of the Tax Com
mission and to obtain from them ac-
curate data showing the amount of
taxable property by them added to
the assessment rolls of the state
within the last two years, the differ
ent classes of property, and in whae
counties the same is located and fur
ther. in order to arrive at the cost
Of placing upon the assessment rolls
this additional taxable property, that
this committee shall obtain from the
Tax Commission and from the audi.
tor Uf the state. a detailed sta atemeni
showing the cost OF maintaining the
tax commission and the total expsns-
es incurred by them in carryig on
the work from the beginning of the
commission to December 5lst, 1914,
and this committee make their report
back to the House and Senate at the
earliest date possible that their re-
port may be used by the appropria-
tion and tax committees of the two
houses. in their deliberations.
Your Joint Committee appointed
for the purpose OF ascertaining the
he assessment rolls Of the state :bN
the tax commission, the counties in
which the same is situated and the
cost OF maintaining the tax commits.
sion and the total expense incurred
by it in carrying on the work from
July lst, 1912. to December 31st, 1914,
beg leave to report that we have en-
deavOred to ascertain. as near as pos
sible, the amount of specific proper
,ty caused to be spread upon the tax
rolls in the various counties of the
state by the said tax commission. and
to that end have made inquiries FROM
the various county auditors OF the
state. and the state auditor. and tax
commission, and as near as we are
able to ascertain from tine tax com
mission the following real and per-
sonal property, CAUSED to be spread
upon the assessment rolls of the var
iOus counties:
"Your committee ascertains from
the Tax Commission that it has certl-
fled to the various assessors and
county auditors of the state Of North
Dakota property that had escaped
taxation and property that the valua>
tiCn was raised on in the sum OF
$3.946,590
"Your committee also finds from.
the reports of the various county au-
ditors throughout the state. except
three or four counties, that the as
sessabe property that has been add
ed to the assessment rolls and left
there by the Boards of equalization,
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