Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

erty was elaborated on the tax digest
Of Barlow county at 100000. 1t
stands on the tax digest now in
comptroller generals office-in plain
figures. The tax was not paid in
April, 1922. A fila was placed in
the sheriff's hands-and he served
the paper on the owners. Then the
truth and the facts appeared.
1 am informed by the sheriff of
Barlow county that he was handed
statement that the property had
been secretly reduced to the sum Of
81 800 and he was plainly informed
that he could only collect $50 on a
magnificent property worth by their
own sworn statement $4,000. q
Those assessors should have raised
the value, but they did place the
property at the owners valuation.
This secret deal made by county Of
ficials-called for a reduction or re-
bate Of 1854, and the state was Of
fered 50 and the county could only
claim SIS after the local school tax
was taken off. I was assessed on
farm lands in 1921 nearly $3.50. My
farm lands are not worth anything
like, maybe not one-twentieth part
of this magnificent, new and pros
porous corporation.
The tax digest Of Barlow county
in Atlanta, shows this Gainesville
property as valued at 100000. 1t
shows plain falsehood. That digest
was approved by Tax Commissioner
Fullbright, and nobody knows that
these derelict county officials had
scaled down a big manufacturing
concern from the owners valuation
of 100000 to the insignificant sum
OF $1,000, until the sheriff's record
was made, and a rebate of 1854 in
taxes called for out of 5000 demand
ed.
If the property had been valued at
$4,000 it would have been far less
than the assessment on the run
down farm 1 happen to own. The
county tax rate was $40 on $1,000.
On every thousand dollars of valua-
ton we had to pay SIS to local schools
| also. The comptroller general has
called a halt on this particular as.
sessment. Why Commissioner Full.
bright passed it over is mysterious
Is he not to blame also?
|
the state capitol read $50, 900, as as
sessed value. Why didn't somebody
find out that it was only paying $50
tax for state and county,, What
does the commissioner have to do in
his office but to find out, if that
much money was really paid?
Just little farther 1 am prepared
to say that the tax collector, answer
ing my question, said he had a paper
signed by these derelicts in office
that he should not be hurt, and il
the state demanded it's quota, and
he had to pay the $3.50, justly due
the state, they would take that
money out of the county treasurer
and refund it to him. Do you see?
DO you comprehend that the taxes
of such hard-pressed people as are
suffering all over Georgia, are to be
used to pay up the deficit to the
money from such big corporations,
and the rest of us are robbed to pay
their taxes, as well as our own? ]
could state more of this pernicous
favOritism if space allowed, for ]
recollect that tens of thousands of
poor and honest men are being sold
out by the sheriff to collect such
tax money, and these men are also
disfranchised as defaulting taxpay
ers. after they are swindled this
way.
Stop this tyranny. It is prepos.
| ferrous to be ground down by taxa
| ton and made serfs to favored few
and to big corporations in our midst.