Show A Lesson in Applied I Business Methods I communication to the A special Christian iS Science Monitor says methods have enabled Improved Baltimore MaryLind l md to increase its collections from S per cent of its cd aes taxes in in l 10 23 to per pel percent nl in 1928 following foll the organization organization 12 cent in the tion of the Bureau of Receipts by Efficiency and Econom Commission Working in ill conjunction the bureaus bureau's modernized auditing and billing department tax collections have ly increased through the employment of a discount allowed for prompt payment of oC taxes and by bya bya gradually increased rate of inter inter- interest interest interest a est with penalties for those who fail reasonable length of after a 3 to nay pa pay time The system by making it greatly to taxpayers ta payers advantage t to pay their tax taC bills within the year ar is in this Va way also helping to keep the tax tux rate low When the Commission set out to reorganize the municipal government on a business basis they found rec- rec records records rec records of uncollected taxes to the amount of As S soo soon as the Bureau of Rec Receipts was organized and ond I began eg-an eg operating most niost of this money began pouring into the treasury and md a noticeable reduction in the tax rate resulted It should be bo stated that this re- re re remarkable improvement in in Baltimore's I governmental affairs was the result I of choosing as members of the tho Effi- Effi Efficiency Efficiency and Econom Economy Commission a ai i leading executive e from each of nearly near near- i ly I a score of the city's largest indus- indus industrial indusI industrial I trial business and transportation corporations cor These gentlemen were given iven a free hand to reorganize the city's methods of doing business and place them on a basis comparable to toa toa toa a well managed private The results have been astounding and illustrate the tho differ differ- difference difference difference ence between the usual political me methods employed in the management of public affairs and the methods of I successful private industries when I applied to the same public problems |