The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-04-01
CITY LEADS in
TAX

Kenosha people are paying the
fourth highest per capita tax in the
state, according to the figures which
have been issued by the tax depart
ment of the Northwestern Railway
company and these figures show that
the tax of s25.26 per capita assessed
against Kenosha people for the 1918
taxes and collected last year was the
fourth highest collected in the state.
Madison, Appleton and Milwaukee have
the distinction Of paying higher per
capita tax than Kenosha. 1t is fore
casted that with the 80 mill levy of
this year the report for the coming
year will show that Kenosha has nosed
out Appleton and Milwaukee as the
place where per capita taxes are high
er than in other cities Of the state.
The fact that Kenosha is fourth high
in tax paying has its consolation in
the fact that the report just issued
shows that Kenosha on the tax levy
just collected is fifth in the per capita
value of real estate and that it is
fourth in the per capita value of per-
sonal property. Kenosha distances all
the cities of the state in the per capita
levy of income taxes made in 1919,
there being no city in the state to APP
proach its record by an even five dol
lar bill per capita.
Reckons Population Low.
In putting Kenosha right at the top
of per capita tax payments it can be
said that the Northwestern tax com
missioner, 7. A. Polleys, has been very
conservative in estimating the popula-
ton of Kenosha. He puts it at $4,000
people and of course the addition of
some 10000 people to this number
would considerably reduce the per
capita.
Kenosha leads all cities of the first
district in the per capita tax paid for
1919. The per capita for Kenosha is
put at $25.26; Racine pays per capita
of $22.71; Beloit, $1s.S7; GAINESVILLE,
$20.07; and Waukesha, $8.77.
1t can be said that in making the
figures the tax commissioner has been
very conservative in estimating the
population of all of these cities.
The Kenosha tax per capita is d.
yided as follows: For county tax 1878;
for city tax, $11.61; school taxes, 1925.
The report shows that the average rate
of increase since 1918 has been 21B5es
and the rate of increase for the year
preceding the making of the report is
a little of $3.50.
Income Tax Highest in State.
That Kenosha is making real money.
is shown by the fact that this citv
leads the whole state with per capita
income tax of $22.1e. The next high
est per capita income tax is found at
Stevens Point, where the people paid
a per capita income tax of $18.36. In
the first district the lineup of the in
come taxes paid was as follows: Ke-
nosha, $22.16; Racine, $10.76; Beloit.
1888; Waukesha, $7O5; GAINESVILLE.
$5.46. Very few of the cities of the
state are shown to have a per capita
income tax in excess of the ten dollar
mark and the showing for Kenosha is
the largest ever made by any city in
the history of the state. This is also
based on a population estimate Of
$4,000. The income tax for Kenosha
is nearly three times as large as the
per capita income tax, for Milwaukee
and it is more than three times the
per capita income tax of the city of
Madison which outranks Kenosha both
in the per capita tax paid for real es-
tate and in the per capita value of the
real estate.
The Other Side of the Picture.
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