Evening star., 1932-07-02

CINCINNATI, dCCOIUIllS W OH ~AoSoSi
Mr.. Miller has been active for
association, having served as
formerly being chairman of its
division. He also is a past presld
Board.
Mr.. Miller is the second Washington
man elected to the post (which num-
Der of years ago was held by John L.:
Weaver, who also is a past president OF
the Washington board.
Other Washington leaders partlcl-
pated actively in the convention, which
was attended by delegates from all Sec
tions of the country.
j, M. Bowie, who is president OF
the washington Real Estate Board, was
made a member of the Executive Com
nittee of the property managers olvl-
sion.
II. Clifford Bangs was elected direc-
tor of the national organization and
also was made chairman of the brokers
division.
and builder was named vice chairman
of the home builders and subdividers'
division.
James S. Taylor Speaks.
James S. Taylor, chief of the division
of building and housing, Department of
Commerce, delivered paper before the
home builders and subdividers division
on New Economies in Materials and
Construction" Mr.. Taylor discussed
technical developments pertaining to
the more or less conventional types OF
home designs and construction and also
some of the more radical departures.
including use of prefabricated units of
metal and wood.
The convention considered a wide
range of problems, particularly those
arising out of the general effects of the
depression, including taxation
Proposed means of relieving the real
estate tax burden, which he pointed out
has been termed inequitable by Federal
and State officials, we're brought before
the convention by Seabury c. Mastick
a member of the New York State
Senate, chairman of its committee on
taxation and retreuchment and chair
man of the New York State Comnis-
sion for Revision of the Tax Laws.
Tax Situation Complicated.
The enactment of the new Federal
tax bill, with its further overlapping of
Federal and State taxation in such
measures as the gasoline tax, has made
the whole tax situation more compl-
Gated, Senator Mastick said. He urged
that a co-ordinating commission be
established to consider the present re-
lations between the revenue system OF
the Federal Government and those OF
the various State Governments, and to
suggest such notifications in the exist
ing arrangements as seem desirable.
The New York Tax Commissions
under a mandate of the legislature to
reduce real estates proportion Of the
taxes, recommended certain proposals
vzy17frh ~ ndaY7fnd in
normal year would reduce the per-
centage of real estate taxes to total
taxes to 55.5 per cent. On basis OF
1882 taxes on real estate, this would be
a reduction of some sl69,000,000 per
annum
Senator Mastick called for action by
militant majority organization" for
control of Federal and State tax outlay.
"If there is to be reduction in either
Federal or State budgets, it must be in
the face of the protests of organized
minorities," he said. I'm my opinion,
there is no way to control either Federal
or State budgets excepting by militant
majority organization, directing their
efforts toward specific items in the
budget which they consider to be un-
necessary or non essential or unw1se.
The time has come for majority, not
minority, control of the public purse.
1.-The New York commission con-
cluded that if the State assumes a
larger share of the financial support OF
local government functions, it must as
sert a larger share of responsibility for
supervision and control. The commits
sion agrees that no additional State
money should be distributed to the local
units until provision has been made for
further State control of local finances
to insure the proper expenditure OF such
funds"
Ohio's new law for the taxing Of in
tangibles promises to give the State
far greater proportionate return from
such property than any other State
has so far succeeded in getting,
according to State Senator Robert A.
Taft of Cincinnati, chairman of the
Special Joint Taxation Committee OF
the Ohio General Assembly, which
worked out the plan for radical revi-
sion of Ohio's tax laws.
THE tax law adopted in 1881 said
Senator Taft, ''is baseo primarily on
the theory Of alleyiating the tax on real
estate as much as is consistent with the
practical limitations imposed on State
governments; in the second place, max
ing as equal as possible the tax on in
tangible property on different owners
Of intangible property, and on making
as equitable as possible the tax on
business.
Difficulty Is Cited.
"The difficulty with taxation Of in
tangibles has been that in no place
where they have such tax do they get
anything like all of the intangible prop
erty that is supposed TO be taxed.
I'VE propose to tax intangible prop
erty bud to measure the tax not by the
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