Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-11
HULCE WILL SEND NOTICES
FOR PERSONAL TAXES
Not Necessary for Real Estate, He
Says, aS Assessment * Same
aS Last Year.
BUSINESS MEN WANT SYSTEM
Object to Standing in Line for Hours
TO Find Out What They Owe,
While FavOritiSm Is Shown to
Particular Groups.

/ In answer to the statement Of at
taches of the city Treasurer's office
| that the time between the period when
tho books are turned over TO that Of
flee by the commissioner of Revenue
and the date when penalty is added
I would not suffice for the making out
and mailing of notices TO taxpayers of
/ the amount Of their taxes and when
due. il was pointed out yesterday that
/ the operation need entail little addi-
/ tiona work. the notices could be
made in carbon duplicates and mailed
! in transparent front envelopes.
As matter Of fact. il was stated
/ yesterday that the Chesapeake and To-
;omac Telephone Company Of Virginia
each month mails out 10 it's customers
! from the Richmond office $4,000 bills
| These include both local and long
| distance charges, and the books are
/ not closed until the day before The
last day OF the month. The whole
| operation OF preparing and mailing
these $4,000 bills takes just fifteen
hours and entails II" overtime work.
so perfectly is the system organized
and so fully arc labor saving devices
made use OF.
CITIZENS OR NORFOLK
GIVEN WRITTEN NOTICE.
the city Trcasurer'S Office on the fact
that they are not required by state
law TO send out notices Of what tan
/ payers owe. This does not explain why
I citizens of Norfolk. who arc under the
same State laws as those OF Richmond
I have the advantage OF such efficient
service. I; is stated that the system
was perfected there following tho SUR
vey by experts of the Bureau Of Mu-
nicipal Research. which recommended
that citizens be put on motto. Of what
they owe the state and city.
: Richmond business men yesterday OK
pressed their fullest approval OF a sys-
EN- which would give To all alike. with
out favoritisn, a service IT, which all
are entitled.
In any first-class hotel said a
member Of the Chamber Of Commerce
last night ore may go through every
department signing orders at ga oh
from the bar to the ba rber shop When
ever he pleaSeS to leave, his bill will
he furnished him from on. office.
tented AS to every detail. Yet when
one wishes to pay his dues I" the gov
eminent he must go to the city Hall
and stand in line for hours outside
of on" office to pay ono bill. and out
sid. of another office to pay some other
bill He pays city gas bills in one
place and city taxes in another. Poll
taxes for one year are paid on one
noor. and poll taxes for another year
to some other official on another floor
There is no such thing AS getting a
bill and sending a check for what YOU
owe unless you belong to one of the
politically organized city dcpartments
or put your affairs in tho hands of
some real estate agent, who is given
private access 10 the tax bills before
the general public is admitted II II
business house ran on any such system
IT would go bankrupt in ii year"
HI'I(I. yRE,ptnIx,. nv,
SEND OUT NOTICES
city Collector Herbert l.. Hulcc stat.
cd yesterday that in response to III.
demand. his office is preparing to SEM
notices Of personal city taxes due u.
Idld not consider il necessary To scnc
notices Of real estate taxes as IN,
assessment is the amc as last wear
incidentally. it was pointed out thu
thc office of Mr.. Iiulcc. which is nov
on salary basis. collects real estate
taxes at sI.65 on the Sl0O. while III.
} othc. Of city Treasurer Pace. whicr
has both "a salary from the city and
fees from the state. The fees last year
amounting to more than $4,000 col.
lcctS only Decent tax on real estate
Announcements was made Satur,Ia
that property in Richmond owned by
moro than 10000 people may be sold
ior taxes unless the claim is settled
IN short time. Most OF these bills
are for delinquent poll-taXcS and have
been turned over I" Lee L. Hancock
an officer appointed under Il Spccia
act Of the last General Assembly, &c
collect them. Mr. Hancock has his Of.
flee in the Mutual Building. Mr.. Hulce
made il plain yesterday that these bills
were for state, rather than city. taxes
delinquent city bills being turned over
TO Delinquent Tax Collector Waiford
1t was stated that many of those now
on the delinquent list have never beer
] ma, lad of i.. "A !,
not know that they are delinquent IL
any private business such claims woul|
/, ne barred by statute because of tn.
failure to give notice.