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Show Less Money Spent To Collect Tax Report Indicates During the fiscal year ended last June, the state tax commission expended ex-pended $1.89 for every $100 collected col-lected and turned into the strong boxes of the state treasurer. The amount per $100 compares with $2.08 in the preceding fiscal year, and is the lowest in any year of the tax commission's history, except ex-cept for the year ended June 30, 1948, when the mark of $1.80 expenditures ex-penditures per $100 collected was set. Even when compared with. 1948, however, a report compiled in the offices of the commission points out, the amount of work accomplished accom-plished per employee has increased 7.4 per cent, whereas the cost per $100 collected has increased in the same period only 5 per cent. This is true so far as the work done in the commission's offices is measured by the number of tax returns filed or fees paid. The measure is not entirely accurate, since the work in some divisions of the commission's organization is not affected by the volume of tax returns or of fees. The property prop-erty tax division, for- example, supervises the administration of the propety tax throughout the state, and itself prepares for the commission data resulting in the assessment of about one-third of the total taxable valuation of the state. Property tax collections throughout the state this year are expected to run in excess of $44 million, of which the tax commission com-mission may itself collect only about $160,000, less than four-tenths four-tenths of one per cent. |