Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-01-21
TAXES HIGHER
FOR THIS YEAR
Winneshiek County Will Collect
$613,2O9.32 i'm 1920, as Against
$i69, 1851 Last Year.
THE BIG RAISE
Is IN FARM LANDS
Taxpayers i'm Iowa Will Pay Ap-
proximately S1O,CDO,OOO More
During 1920 Than i'm 1919.

Taxes ar going to be considerab BILE
higher this year than last, as Win
neshiek County will collect S613.-
209.32 in 1920, while the 1919 taxes
We're $3.50, 1851 This is according
to the grand abstract prepared by
, the county auditor The big raise is
on farm lands, due 10 2S per cent in
crease put on by the state executive
council. Tax leyies are correspond
ingly higher throughout the county
on township roads, schools and the
increase put on by the state.
The Des Moines Register gives the
following information about Iowa
taxes for this year:
Taxpayers in Iowa will pay ap-
proximately s10,000,0OO more dur
ing 1920 than they did in 1919
The total of city, county and state
taxes collected in 1919 was $66,-
216, 6,150.50. The estimated increase
of $1O,00O,000 would bring the total
collection for 1920 up to $76,216,-
1880.
Five years hence, or by 1925. it
is predicted that the total of state,
county and city taxes collected will
reach the 10O,00O,00O mark. This
would be an average of more than
$1,000,000 annually for each of the
ninety-nine counties in the state.
! From 1898 to 1919 inclusive there
has been collected for taxes of all
kinds in Iowa the sum of SS17,015,-
52S.96. Add to this the $4,000, 900
estimated to be collected in 1920 and
there is a total of $S93.015,52S.96
or nearly $1,000, 600, ,O0o for the
period of time under consideration.
Statistical experts in the state
auditors office say that there will
be an increase of 5000, ,00O,O 600 in
property valuations reported for
1919. Taxes collected during 1920
will be based upon this increase in
valuations.
Only nine counties in the state
had attained the distinction of be-
ing million dollar tax collecting
counties on the 1918 levy which
was collected in 1919. They were
Polk, which paid s5.S60,7S5.5S in
taxes of all kinds; Woodbury., So
! 532 ,090.SS; Black Hawk, 81, ,435
1892; Cerro Gordo, $l.096, ,06O.-
rs; Clinton. $1,0S6, 6,S69.01; Scott
$107s,546.16; Linn, $1,So1,45S.19;
Pottawattamie. 3.346.SS.
Going back for comparative
| figures to 1898 it is recorded that
| $1S,297.54 was the total of all taxes
collected that year. The total for
1918 was $66,216,150.50 or an in
crease of s47,91S,652.96 for the
twenty-five years.
In 1900 there was collected in
taxes $19,726.789.SO or $1,429,497.-
"a more than was collected seven
years before in 1898.
From 1900 to 1910, however,
there was a marked increase. In
1910 the taxes paid reached $32,-
| SOC, ,045.SS. This is an increase o.
s12,773,256.OS over the total paid
in 1900.
The big raise in taxes came in
1913. Then the total taxes paid were
$46,022,009.65. In the year previous
1912, the state, county and city tax
es We're $37,14S,10'6.O1. Therefore
there was an increase of S9,S73,-
903.64 shown in 1913. This stands
as the highest raise per year in tax
es in the history of the state.
In 1914 there was collected $47-
! 072.369.27 or an incrase of $1,049..
359.62 over the year previous. There
was jump of SO, 603,663,9S in
1915, however. as s50,676,033.25
was collected that year.
There was an increase in 1916 OF
1881, ,592.19 over the previous year
as in 1916 S54.267,625.44 was col
lected as city, county and state
taxes.
Going back from 1916 to 1910
there is noted raise in tax collec-
tions. In 1910 the total given is
$32,500,045.SS. The $54,267 ,625. A
COLLECTED in 1916 is therefore an in
crease of $21,767,579.56 for the six
year peroid. The taxes collected in
1916 were just trifie shy of being
three times the amount or taxes col
lected in 1898 when $1S,297.497.54
was collected.
There is wide variance in the
! figures given for 1916 and 1917.
In the first named year $54,267.-