The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-08-07
COUNTY ASSESSOR
ISSUES STATEMENT
People Given Opportunity to Check
List and Make True Report in Time
to Avoid Penalties.


to Avoid Penalties.
The following statement &c the pub
lie has been issued from the office Of
the county assessor:
SIN this issue Of the Producers
News viii be found a complete but
condensed report OF all assessments
made in Sheridan county this year.
II IS the wish of the board Of county
commissioners that you examine same
carefully, both as to other taxpayers
assessments as well as your own. If
you find that some one has failed to
report property for assessment or has
turned same IN at an unequitable or
unreasonably low value, you should in
all fairness to the public make a con
fldential report of this matter either
to the county assessor or some mem
Der Of the board of county commits
siOners. The matter will then be in
vestigated and if found to be correct
such property will be assessed for ten
times its true value, or for ten times
the difference in the true value and
what was actually reported.
For example: You find that so
and-so has reported Is head Of cattle
and you knew that on the first Mon
day in March, 1924, he owned 16 head
you should report it. If it is found
that so-and-so actually failed or ever
looked this item, on purpose, to evade
taxation, he would be assessed for ter
times the value Of the animal he die
not report. If it was a COW he would
h., 60 cOE0 n vvnnrtlfY1.
at $4,000, etc. Let US assume that
you find some enc reported their i'm
prOvements, consisting Of buildings
and fences, at $4,000 and you know
that he privately claims them worth
100000 he would become liable for al
additional assessment Of ten times the
difference in the report and the true
value, or S15,000.00.
Report Mistakes 10 Assessor
eff you find, upon examining YOU
own report, that you have overlooked
some item for assessment, you ere
urged to lose no time in reporting this
mistake on your part 10 the county
assessor, who will then make out az
additional assessment Tor you for thi.
property or difference in value, 0u
without penalizing ycu the ten time!
that otherwise will result, if some ONT
else reports you first ana you do no
get around within week after thi!
issue of the Producers News and have
it corrected yourself.
Many Failed 20 Report Full Value
cit is claimed by great many PEG
pie throughout the county that there
are quite Q nuu0o u taxpayers Whl
have failed to reporJ any agricultural
products CT solvent credits, and {
great many are also supposed to have
reported their improvements at from
One-fourth to One-half cf the rea
value, and if this is correct and thes,
parties do not make haste to get thei
assessment corrected, that there vii
be tens of thousands eff dollars IN pen
alties imposed. Solvent credits 0
cash is something that is taxed so lcN
that no one should even think OF over
looking it. The tax is less than $50
for each one thousand dollars. Blu
whether the tax is high or low,
should be the duty of every propert
owner to report everything he ha
And it should be the duty OF ever
taxpayer to inform the proper author
tiles if they know of some one VIII
has not reported some or all of thei
property for assessment, or else give
an untrue value of same.
Now, bear in mind, that you shoul
get your report to the assessor, eS
pecially if it applies to your own as
sessmsnt, within a week from the dat
of this issue, and you should repol
any corrections in any other person
assessment just as soon as you pos
-sibly can.
Information Kept Confidential
On the either hand, if you merel
think that some one has not given
true report to the assessor, it woul
be best just to keep thinking so bU
do not voice your thoughts, as 70
may be mistaken, and it might even
Ually lead to a row before the matte
is settled. But you ca14 rest assure
that all information which you giN
to the proper county officials in r
porting any assessments for CORE
tions that this information will
kept confidential and your name WI
not be divulged.
The assessor OF this county HI
placed evey one on their HONOR
report their own property for asses
ment and taxation, and this has bee
done to save the county apprcximat
ly $4,000 per year, and as the Hon'
System has been employed sever
years without giving the taxpayers
published report, it was decided tn
the information would be given Of
this year, and it is now up to you
check up the assessments and satis1
yourself as to the value of this syste
of assessing property"
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