Indiana daily times., 1920-08-06
MARION COUNTY
DEFIES ORDERS
OF TAX BOARD
Reductions on Real Estate
Assessments Ordered in
Several Townships.
NO RUBBER STAMPING

Refusing to be a rubber stamp" for
the state tax board. the Marion county
board OF review today made substantial
reductions Of the tax duplicates, includ-
ing the horizontal increases for i've
townships of this. county.
The board ordered reductions in the
following townships on real estate as
sessments as follows:
In Decatur township, 20 per cent re-
duction.
In Lawrence township, 20 per cent re-
duction.
In Perry township, 10 per cent re-
duction.
In Warren, outside, 10 per cent re-
ductiOn.
In Wayne, outside, 10 per cent reduc-
ton.
No reductions were made in Center,
Franklin, Pike or Washington town
ships or the city Of Indianapolis.
After making the reductions the board
of review authorized the following order
to be sent to the state tax board, which
establishes and equallzes the increases,
as follows:
Whereas, the assessments as made by
the township assessors and the county
board of review for the year 19ZO snow
an increase in the value or the personal
property in excess of the 1919 assess
ments as entered on the tax duplicate in
each taxing unit of said county.
Therefore, be 1t resolved, by this Ma
rfon county board of review, after being
fully advised in the premises, and pur-
suant to authority conferred on it by the
provisions Of the Tuthil- -hfper act IN
order TO equalize the assessment or prop
erty in Marion county for the year lSle,
now adopts the following increases 1or
the various taxing units Of Marion coun-
ty as established by township assessors
MARION COUNTY.
An increase Of 50 per cent on all lands
and lots and 80 per cent on all improve
merits in Lawrence township, and an
increase of 20 per cent on all lands ana
lots and 80 per cent on all improvements
in Decatur township, and an increase OF
10 per cent on all lands ana lots ana
80 per cent on all improvements IN Wasn-
ington township, so per cent on all lands
and lots and 80 per cent on all In
provements in Warren township, ana an
Increase Of 40 per cent on all -lancs ana
lots and 80 per cent on all improvement s
In Center township, and an increase OF
50 per cent on aQ lands and lots ana %
Der cent on all improvements IN PIKE
township, and an increase OF 20 per
cent on all lands and lots and 30 per
cent on all Improvements in Perry town
ship and an Increase of 10 per cent
on all lands and lots in wayne Town
ship. The above increases do not IN
elude cities and towns
and lands and 80 per cent on all I'M
provements in the city OF Indianapolis
and IN all the towns, except that this
increase on Improvements shall not ap-
ply to any improvements IL that part
Of the city of Indianapolis situated In
Washington township.
An increase of 90 per cent on all per
sorsI property in the entire county.
The above increases on real and per-
sonal property do not apply TO any prop
erty assessed by the state board or tax
commissioners, either originally or an
appeal, OF on eertldcation on the order
Of the board OF review and re-assessment.
The increase on personal property shall
not apply to items on the first page OF
the personal property schedule, nor to
item one on the second page Of said
schedule.
REDUCES IN
TOWNSHIPS.
The order made by the board Of re-
view reduces in five townships the hort-
zontal increases and seeks to reduce
every taxpayer IN the townships af-
fected.
-Four members Of the board Of review
late yesterday Indicated they would GER
tify the tax duplicates back as they
stand including the horizontal increases
without a single change.
But when Dow W. Vorhies, a farmer
Of Prairie township, and a representa-
tive Of the Marion County Farmers fed
Grafton, took his seat this morning as
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