The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-05-26
S.a.. WILL REVISE
FAYETTE TAX VALUES
Tax Board Enters Order
For Re-assessment
OF County

sessmcnt of property in Fayett'
County for the purpose of state taxa
ton was ordered late today by the
State Tax Commission. A force OF
employees of the commission will be
sent to the county to make the as.
sessment.
The action of the commission
comes safter nearly score of coun-
ties had appeared and most of them
promised TO make the reassessment.
County Judge +. II. Doak, of Fay
cite County, appeared before the
commission yesterday and stated that
the old equalization board could not
meet the S10,0OO,000 increase in as
sessment ordered by the commission
on February 2S. He said that a
house-to-house canvass would be
necessary, as the present assessment
was unequal.
The-commission based its action
OF clanse of the 1917 tax law which
had neyer been invoked before. This
clause allows the commission to make
a reassessment with its own employees
if the comfy board of supervisors re-
fuses or fails to meet the require
ments as to assessment of property at
100 pr cent of its cash value.
County Board Recreant.
The order of the commission fol-
lows:
"Office of the state Tax Commits
sion,
Frankfort, Ky, May IS, 1929:
"Order directing the equalization
and reassessment of Fayette County,
Ky, by the State Tax Commission.
"The State Tax Commission, sitting
as the state board of equalization on
February 2S, 1922, after notice had
been given and hearing had been had
in the manner provided by law, hav-
ing entered an order directing that
the county board of supervisors of
Fayette County equalize the assessed
valuation of Fayctte County as re-
turned by the county tax commits
sioner as of July 1. 1921, and in
crease said assessed valuation as fol-
lows:
Lands, 100000.
Town lots $4,000
Tangible personal property other
than livestock, $6,40O,O00; making
total increase of 100000 on said
classes of property and said order
having been regularly laid before
said county board of supervisors of
Fayette County and said county |
board of supervisors of Fayette Coun-
ty having finally adjourned without |
having complied with said order Of |
this commission.
d, at is now, therefore ordered that
a reassessment and equalization be
made by this commission and its duly
authorized agents of all the taxable
property of every character and kind
in Fayette County, said assessment
to be made as of July /, 1921.
STATE TAX COMMISSION,
''Rainey T. Wells, Chairman.
James A. Scott, Member
IL. r. Davis, Member
ATTEST: Ben Marshall, Secretary.
- May Resist Order
Following the making public OF the
order James A. Scott, member or the
in the absence or Chalr-
man Rainey T. Wells, who is ill, stat
ed that the personnel of the party
that will make the reassessment had
not vet been determined. The exact
time when the work will start also
had not been determined, altho MI
Scott said that it would be under
taken at once.
Inst what action may follow the
order OF the commission was a mat
ter OF conjecture here today. Dis
patches from Lexington, published In
this mornings newspapers, stated
that seven county judges from Blue
grass counties in a meeting there
yesterday had decided to resist the
arbitrary action of the State Tax
Commission" In ordering county
Judges to reconvene the county
boards of tax supervisors and in
crease the valuations fixed by the
boards and that they had combined
"for the purpose of taking appropri-
ate action TO test the authority of the
State Tax Commission. The COM
missions answer was the Fayette
County order.
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