The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-03-24
PROPERTY TAX
PAID IN STATE.
IS 20 MILLION
Burleigh County Last Year
Paid $9l1.723.73, Says
Tax Commissioner

Property taxes paid in North Da-
kOta in 1925 reached the >enormous
total of $29, ,3O9.S6, figures COM
piled by State Tax Commissioner T..
H. II. Thoresen show.
Total taxes levied against property
for all purposes, including the one
cent flat acreage tax and the hail
indemnity tax, amounted to $32, ,573,-
525.4l. This figure also includes all
state. village, city, town and county
taxes, including special sment
levies. 1t does not, however, include
the state cigarette, income or gasO-
line taxes collected.
Six counties paid more than 81 ,OOO,-
900 in. property taxes. although only
one, Cass county, reached the ST.
OOO, 900 mark. It had total Of ST..
256, ,O05.3O.s Other leading counties in
point Of taxes paid, were: Ward, ST.
G29, 1852; Grand Forks, $l,5l6, 6,45O.-
&C; Stutsman. $l,219,OO8.36; Barnes,
81, 1,l34,57S.77 and Williams, $l,022.-
Burleigh's Total
The total recorded for some other
counties was Burleigh, $911 ,723.73
Morton, $Ss9,49s.83; Ramsey, $S43,-
3O5.l9.
The state levied u total Of $6,lO4,-
O69.53, the report shows, divided as
follows: general fund, $2,396, ,647.41; !;
State bond interest and sinking fund,
$768,9l6.T7; returned soldiers fund,
S998, 8,698.02; states portion of grain
tax, $5,250.61; home builders deficit
tax fund, $49,92S.87; flat acreage
tax. $288, 8,322.62; indemnity hail in
surancc acreage tax, $1,616. .4O5.23.
\ In 1924 the total levied for state
purposes was $6,648,896.87, divided as
follows: general fund. $2,82l ,948.73;
state bond interest and sinking fund.
$7O5, 5,486.37; returned soldiers fund,
81, ,OO7, ,838.2O: states portion Of grain
tax, $3,16O.38; home builders deficit
tax fund, $5O.30i.O6; flat acreage tax,
$26S S,557.72; hail insurance indcmni-
ty. acreage tax, M,79l.514.4l.
Schools Get AlmQst Half
Nearly half of the $29,l65,3 .86
collected as general property taxes
went to the upkcep Of schools, the
exact figure being $l3,479, ,2O6.37 and
the percentage 1921. The next larg-
est tax consumers were the counties
with levics t0talling $6,696 ,357.65 or
1896 per, cent of the total. The pro-
portion Vakeu Dy OtucT pOAltICdi uIvl'
sions was: state general taxes $4.-
219,341.68 or l4.46 per cent; town
ships, $2,372,3 ,358.01 Nor 8.l3 per cent:
cities, towns and villages, $2,399, ,O46.-
Is or 822 per cent.
Special taxes levied in cities, towns
and villages totallcd $1,000, ,945.50
while special county taxes totailed
only $222,442.20.
Cass county led the list in the
amount collected as special taxes
with 1904 $3.50. Other counties, in
the order Of the amount spent, were:
Ward, SLAB, 1866: Grand Forks, $14O,-
5000; Burlcigh, $115,606.Ol; Rich
land, $l0l ,914.49; Morton, sec, ,491 .49;
Stutsman, &62,922.78; Ramsey, SAL
,O84,96. Twelve counties had no cities
or villages collecting special assess
ments and only 18 Of the So counties
levied special taxes for improvement
purposes.
These counties and the amounts
levied were: Barnes, $1,055.74; Ben
son, $1,984.58; Bottineau, $9,994.78;
Burleigh, $882.6l; Cass, $lOl ,l6O.94; !;
Cavalier, $247.4O: Grand Forks, $l2,-
O46.85; Griggs, $40; La Mourc, ST.
Ol1.4l; McHenry, $3,249.02; McKen-
zie,. $34,6l7.64: Pembina, $6,S38.57; /;
Richland, $48.76; Rolette, $l71.04;
Sargent, $S4, ,20S.SSS Steele, So; Trail.
s14,374.19; Wells, $533.90.