Report Of The Special Tax Commission Appointed May 1911 To The Governor Of Iowa 1912 Classic Reprint

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Download or read book Report of the State of Washington Tax Investigation Committee written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the State of Washington Tax Investigation Committee: Appointed by the Governor, Louis F. Hart; By Virtue of Chapter 171 of the Session Laws of the State of Washington, 1921 To the Citizens of the State of Washington: In the month of July, complying with chapter 171 of the Session Laws of 1921, I published a statement of the tax situation in this state. Supplementing that statement I am submitting herewith the complete report of the special committee I appointed to study the tax problems of the state. In making this report public I am complying with the wishes of a great number of the citizens of the state who are studying the problem with the idea in view of bringing to the attention of the next legislature some changes in our system that will help to change the present unequal load that real estate and personal property are now bearing. I commend to your special attention those paragraphs in this report relating to the present system of assessing property and the remedy suggested by the committee. Also the paragraph dealing with the subject of budget control and the paragraphs relating to the school finance of the state. I had given these questions considerable study prior to the submission of the committee's report and the recommendations submitted are in accord with my general views on the subject. I am in favor of a strict state control over the assessment of property. The detail of working it out is not entirely clear in my mind as yet. The budget system I have always advocated, especially a budget for the state placing the responsibility entirely on the executive and holding him to account for the management of the state's finances. The school question is an especially complicated one. I am not prepared at this time to say that I am in accord with the committee's recommendation, but it is certain that the funds being raised and expended by the educational department of this state must be handled in a different manner. The rest of the many subjects contained in this report have been hastily examined by myself and I am not prepared to make a statement at this time as to their merit, but I have hopes that the citizens of the state will give this question continued study and be prepared at the next session of the legislature to give me their vigorous support in bringing about a better system of tax administration, to the end that governmental functions may still be carried on entirely in accord with the public's wishes, but with rigid economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.