Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-03-24
CITY TAX RATE
WILL Be S3.86
Probable Rate Given Out by
Secretary Spencer of Tax
Board Show Big Jump
DECREASE IN SCHOOL TAX
viii be Twenty-Five Per Hun
dred-- State and Road Tax
Likely to Remain the Same
Bv STAFF Correspondent.

BIZ STAFF Correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK, March "a
The tentative 1920 tax rates for Mid
dIesex county Perth Amboy and New
Brunswick have been announced py
William A Spencer secretary Of the
County oBard of Taxation, showing
the county tax rate to be eighty-one
cents per hundred dollars; state school
tax, twenty-five cents per hundred;
state road tax, ten cents per hundreu'
Perth Amboy city tax rate, $S.86 per
hundred and New Brunswick city TAX
rate $4.10 per hundred.
The Perth Amboy tax rate for 1920,
If the present figures stand. Will be
fifty cents per hundred dollars val
uation more than that of last year
which was 1886 per hundred. A jump
Of almost one dollar per hundred
dollars valuation has occurred IN
New Brunswick, this years figures or
S410 being ninety-six cents more
than the 1919 tax rate of $3.1a.
The assessed valuations in Perth
Amboy for 1920 are: Land. $10,S07,-
410; improvements, s10,1S0,0S5; sec
ond class railroad, $1,651.607; per-
sonal, $10,066.825.
The tentative tax rates of the other
municipalities in Middlesex county
could not be learned from Mr.. Spen-
Ger this morning as he had had time
only to figure out the rates of the
two largest cities in Middlesex up
until the time this paper went to
press.
The tax rate in Perth Amboy has
taken a jump of $1.04 per hundred
dollars valuation in the last four years.
In 1917 the rate was $2S2. In 1918
an increase of fourteen cents per
hundred boosted the rate to S296.
Last year there was q jump Of forty
cents making the figures $3.50 while
this yaar fifty cent increase makes
the rate $3.86.
In 1918 the tax rate of Perth AM
boy was -eight cents per hundred
dollars valuation more than that OF
New Brunswick, the county seat rate
being $2.88 as compared with Perth
Amboys rate of $2.96. Last year
Perth Amboys rate was twenty-five
cents higher than that of New Bruins
wick, the latter's rate being S3.14 as
compared with $3.50 in Perth Amboy
This year, however. New Brunswick
rate takes jump of ninety-six cents
on one hundred dollars valuation as
compared to fifty cents in Perth Am
boy, making the 1920 tax rate in New
Brunswick twenty-four cents higher
than that in Perth Amboy. The county
seats rate for 1920 is $4.10 and thai
of Perth Amboy 1886.
The new county rate means an
increase of ninety-cents over last year,
seventy two cents per hundred or S120
per thousand.
A decrease LIS shown in the the state
school tax rate over that OF last year
This Is due to the fact that the state
appropriated $100,000,000 extra for
school purposes. For 1920 the schoo
tax Is twenty-five cents per hundred
or $3.50 per thousand, while in 1918
1t was twenty eight cents per hundred
or $3.50 per thousand.
The state road tax remains the same
as last year, 1t being ten cents pei
hundred or 81 per thousand.
The probable tax rate of the Cit.
Of New Brunswick will be $4.14 PEI
hundred or $41.40 per thousand. This
shows a raise of $40 per thousand
over last year, when the tax rate pc
hundred was $3.14 OF. S31.40 per thous-
and.
Figures on the Perth Amboy ta1
rate have not been completed 1al
enough for announcement as yet.
The main cause of the increase II
the county tax rate, Is due in larg,
extent according to Secretary Spencer
to the fact that the local tax rate Il
high. The increase in schools. sal
aries Of officers and loss of the liquo
licenses which must be made up are
the main contributing causes to th'
high local tax rate according to thu
secretary