Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-15 | Page 11 | Will Test Law on Taxing Imports

WILL TEST LI Oil TAXING IMPORTS ' 1 - " I 1 Board of Equalization and Review Re-view Refuses to Allow Exemption Ex-emption Requested. Sitting as a board of equalization and review, the oouuty commissioners decided yesterday to refuso tho application appli-cation of tho Apollinaris Agency eom-pany eom-pany for exemption of a consignment of water in a local warehouso from taxation. Tho company had applied for oxomption, declaring that the bottled bot-tled water was imported from Europe and had already been taxed by tho federal fed-eral government. Until it passed into other hands it was not subject to a second sec-ond and local tax, it was claimed. Having received an opinion from tho county attorney to the effect that tho assessment was valid and should be onforccd, the commissioners decidod to stand by the assessor and lew the tax. An interesting legal fight in Ihc courts nuiy result. The eompanv is assessod for $400 worth of charged water. The board also declined to grant an abatement to E. 0. Howard as administrator admin-istrator of the estate of Jamca Mc-Tornej Mc-Tornej . Howard appliod for relief from an assessment of $16,000 cash on hand in tho estate, alloging that the estate only had $3000 in cash on hand at tho timo the assessment was made. The county assessor explained that by the sale of bonds tho estate had como in to tho additional cash last March, after tho assessment had been made, and this extra cash had been taxed. Numerous complaints from administrators adminis-trators of estates are being received by the commissioners. In making the assessment as-sessment this year William Lcatham, county assessor, made a special point of discovering tho amount of cash on hand in the various unsettled estates, a line of assessment that had boon more or less neglected heretofore.