The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-09
Total a Little Over $4,000
as Compared With Over
100000 Last Year.
FIND more DODGERS
Nearly Entire Amount Is for
Taxes which Should Have
Been Paid New Years.

The bottom has fallen out Of the
income tax industry in Kenosha county
and when the tax collectors report to
Madison on the income tax collections
for this year, it is improbable that it
will take more than two-cent postage
stamp to balance the states account
with Kenosha county.
Kenosha industries did not make any
money in 1921. Not one of the larger
industries of the city made income
sufficiently to make it possible for tn.
state to levy tax against it and the
total income tax assessed against all
OF the corporations for the present year
will not exceed $4,000 and it is prob
able that every nickel of this amount
Will be wiped off by the offset of per
sonal property taxes. The tax to BE-
collected from Kenosha corporations is
the smallest in the history of income
tax collection in the county.
Governor Blaine's tax dodgers" are
again in evidence this year and over
S45,OO0 of the tax to be collected is
taxes which are named on the roll as
additional" some of them RUNNING
back as far as 1915 and it is supposed
That the assessments have been made
In connection with the drive of THE
state tax commission in this county.
The amounts of additionalfax assessed
against the VARIOUS corporations in The
county are now on file in the Office Of
the county clerk and anyone interestes
may go to the clerk and ask that he be
allowed to examine these returns.
Roll Slumps to Nothing.
For the income tax of 1921 the coun-
ty of Kenosha had total of S623, 661 ~
and nearly all of this was on incomes
earned in 1920. For the year 1922 the,
roll received today shows total tax
of $57,538.47 and for the most part the
tax to be collected is for the years
1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918.
Only one of the industrial corpora-
lions of Kenosha will pay an income
tax to the state and county this year.
The roll indicates that all other in
dustries of the city did not make
money enough in 1921 to reach the
stage of paying the state income tax.
In 1921 there was assessed against
corporations in Kenosha county the
sum of $75,990.90 for the soldier bonus.
This year the total of the soldier bonus
tax is $10,564.29 and more than half
of this should have been collected in
the former years. The educational
bonus tax last year brought the state
from KenOsha county S88, 74O.42 and
this year the puttance which goes into
this tax is $4,53974, nearly all of which
is for "back taxes"
The fund for the teachers retirement
money last year amounted to $81 ,9S2. 81.
This year the total is but 81, O57.T5 and
some of this is money which should
have been collected last year.
Just a Few Big Items.
The hundreds of thousands formerly
assessed against Kenosha corporations
are conspicuous only for their absence
and the highest figure to appear on the
tax roll is an additional tax" against
one industry for the sum of $23 ,996O2.
This same corporation is assessed
S6,84488 as additional soldier bonus
tax and $1,804.26 for back teachers
retirement fund. Another corporation
is assessed s8,124.16 for back taxes,
and still another $3.50 for back taxes
These items make up the only big
items of the roll. 1t is said that one
or two Of the Industrial companies will
contest in the state courts against the
collection of these so-called "dodged
taxes" holding that the am ounts have
been unfairly assessed against them by
the state. In all FIVE industrial cor
porations are assessed for back taxes
and similar assessme nts are mad
against half a dozen other corporations
more or less connected with the in,
dustrial life of the city.
Hard Bump for the City.
The elimination of the corporation
income tax for the year means hard
problem for the city commission to
meet. Last year the city realized more
than S350,000 from income taxes col
lected from the corporation. This year
the city is lucky that the state does
not require the payment of a premium
or losses to the same corporation. The
city commission must find way 20
account for this money and it is not
that this ma y demand some
of the mill levy. Only the
most rigid economy on the part of the
city can take care of this great slump
in the amount which would be accessi-
bic for the city's budget next year.