The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-03-28
AUDITOR ISSUES
REPORT OF TAXES
State Auditor Ray p. Chase
Sends Report of State and
County Taxes for 1927.

Citizens of Minnesota in 1928 will
pay the greatest total in taxes and
at the highest average tax rate in
the history of the state, says a bull
letin recently received from Ray P.
Chase, state auditor. In this abb
stract of tax lists of all counties and
the state it shows that the total taxes
levied in the state for 1927, aggre-
gate $129, 9,998,17 an increase of
$7,037, 1881 above 1926.
The average tax rate also is the
highest that has ever been reported
62.16 mills exclusive of special taxes,
an increase of 3.76 mills above 1926
and the biggest increase that has
been made since 1920 with the excep-
tion of 1922. The average direct tax
rate, state and local, in 1902 was 24.30
and by 1912 had increased to 27.74.
In 1917 it had mounted to 1922 mills
and by 1922 to 5423 mills.
Direct taxes levied in Minnesota in
the past ten years have almost doub-
led. In the same period there has
been an increase of less than 20 per-
cent in the value of property in the
state. Taxes are more than triple
the total of 1912 and more than 13
times the 1902 total.
Property valuation for the state
was fixed by the state tax commits
sion at ,144 of which ST.
O35 1881 ,290, or $22.O1 per acre repre-
sents the value of 47,038,131 acres of
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values of town and city lots and
structures and $228,275,651 personal
property valuation.
According to the figures in Mr..
Chase's office Redwood County has a
total of 552,613.26 acres of farm land.
These lands with structures thereon
are valued at $17,O54,3 4,354.0O or an av-
erage value per acre of $30.86.
The valuation of the town and
city lots of Redwood County with
structures thereon is $2,307,977OO
while the personal property valuation
is $2,289, ,148.00, for a total valuation
of $21, ,651, ,479.00. The average tax
rate exclusive of special taxes is A.
81 mills, with the total taxes levied
at $1,118,041.54.
This $1,118,041.54 taxes levied in
the county is divided as follows:
State taxes, $139, 1888 to state rev.
enue soldiers relief, state road and
bridge and others, $26,631.33 school
and university tax and $1,O82.61 to
Teachers Insurance and retirement
fund. The county taxes are divided
as follows: Revenue, $50, 1929;
Road and Bridge $125,578.58; Poor,
$2O,135.S7 and other taxes $751; ,924.-
"a.
The city and village taxes are dis
tributed as follows: Revenue, SAG,
6O2.84; Road and Bridge, $11,285.77;
Interest and Principle on state loans,
$7,823.51; Bonds and Interest other
than Estate Loans" $1,028.13; Local
assessments, $23,293.67 and other
taxes $17,285.3O.
In the distribution of the township
taxes the revenue amounts to SILL
329.34 with Road and Bridge at
$129,71O.04. Interest and principle on
state loans total $2,O67.68 while
Bonds and Interest other than Estate
Loans" amounts to $43.86 and other
taxes $10,998.91.
The school district taxes starts
with the local one mill tax that
amounts OF $2l, ,651.53, with Other
Special Taxes given at $279,011.2l.
The total value of money and cred
it's in the county according to Mr..
Chase's report amount to $l,952,467
with the total taxes on this amount
as S5,856.39. This is divided as fol-
lows: State taxes, one-sixth of levy
S976.07 with the county taxes the
same. The other two-thirds of ST.
952.14 each goes to township, city
and village levy and to the school dis
trict levy.