The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-11
Equalizing the Tax Burden;
Five Million a Year

sioners and the penalty they al
liable for In case they knowingly a
low property to be assessed above q
below its true value? Yes.
II. Did it give correct state
ment of who should pay the take
,. during the year when sale wa
made? Yes.
Is. Did it give a correct stats
ment when 1t said that any citize
has right to make complaint
against any other citizen who list
his property incorrectly and that
becomes the duty Of the prosecutin
attorney to start prosecution whe
sufficient evidence is laid before hin
showing that somebody is employing
deception or fraud to escape the pay
ment of taxes? Yes.
10. Was the newspaper correct II
advising everybody to report all tn,
property to the assessor and leave /
to him to assess 1t properly after re
ceiving the information? Yes.
20. It is legal to exempt the lot
held by the Masonic lodge, the L. D
s. church. the Catholic church or an,
other religious or fraternal society
just because they are planning t.
build on them or to use them 4,
some future time, but yet have the
right, II they wish, to sell them and
take a profit that includes the ia.
that would be paid on them II hello
by individuals? No.
From Issue Of January Is, 1921
81. Was the old law regarding the
payment Of taxes on migratory stock
amended to take the duties of collec.
ton out Of the hands of the treasurer
and place it with the assessor and
authorize him to make the collec-
lions or take suitable security for the
payment at the time he did the as
sessing? Yes.
%. Did Bingham county lose
$2S55.4S on migratory stock in 1917
and $4,000 in 1918 because the law
did not give him authority to make
the collection at the time he made
the assessment? Yes, should have
used the word personal property.
%. Does any one in the southern
end of the county claim that four
train loads of cattle were unloaded
at Sterling in May and grazed for
some time in Bingham county pass
ing over the line into another county
without being assessed or paying any
taxes? Trego was unable to furnish
proof.
From Issue Of January II, 1921
"a. Did Mr.. Malcolm tell the board
)f commissioners that it would not
De hardly right for him to chanrge
'ull mileage while he was assessing
Shelley and driving up and back
'very morning and night and that he
lad not charged full mileage for
hat? Yes.
25. Do the vouchers show that Mr..
Ialcom did charge full mileage,
hirty-six miles each day he was as
essing Shelley excepting the last day
nd then charged fifty-four miles?
70. Mr.. Malcolm showed that the
york Of May 6 and z was combined
n one mileage slip; therefore he
raveled eighteen miles he did not
barge for.
rs. Did Mr.. Malcolm express some
oubt as to whether Deputy Assessor
lines should charge for full round !
rip when he drove from Blackfoot /
n Saturday afternoon to his home i
Aberdeen and then back on Mon
ay morning, Lightweight miles for
le round trip, $3.50? Yes. Did
e express some doubt as to whether
lr. Hines ought to charge mileage
'r that kind of trip to enable him
spend Sunday at home? Yes.
II. Did Mr.. Malcolm O. K. Mr..
ines bill for Just such a charge as
lat? Yes, this and others. [
%. Now that such bills have been
'proved and paid, does the tax COM
ission approve them? No.
20. Does the auditors report by
efenbach and Moon show that
Venty or thirty persons and firms
re delinquent from the year 1919 in
lie sum of $126O.SO. (Date of jan
airy 2O) for personal property tax
hich it was the assessors duty to
'llect at the time the assessment
as made or take security for it., or
sell the property and to get the
oney? Yes.
30. Was the assessor violating the
W governing the work of his office
hen he allowed the 1919 taxes to
unpaid all thru the year 1920 and
i'll not make any move to sell the
'operty and secure the money?
AXE for example the McVicar Print
g company which Mr.. Moon cited in
OF such cases. It was
,glect of duty.
81. Does the Moon report show
at the Nelson-H Hansen Ditch com
my and the Jensen Ditch company
'glected to refund to the county the
mount the county paid out for them
r water masters in 1919. That it
q not appear that the assessor
lshed the collection of those ac-
UNITS, that he let them drag along
lpaid and that in the year 192OI
ere were $154S.33 of just such bills
at were left unpaid and were at
at time still unpaid and nothing
ing done to collect them? Yes,
.413.83 still due.
Issue of January 81 |,
80. Are diamonds and other I
welry taxable? Under what condi-
ms can people obtain exemption
om taxation on jewelry worn on the
rSon? Yes. X
80. II any person entitled to ex-