Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-02 | Page 2 | Tax Payments Heavier than Former Years

TAX PAYMENTS TAX PAYMENTS HEAVIER THAN fORMER Y YEARS More Than 70 Per Cent of of Total Taxes for 1923 Paid Into Treasurers Treasurer's Office Office Office Of Of- I fice fice to Saturday Night More than 70 per cent of the total taxes tates due for 1923 had b been en collected by the county treasurer E. E J. J Groesbeck when the tax windows windows windows win win- dows of his office closed at 5 6 o'clock Saturday night This Is considered a record inthe matter of collection before the period of delinquency Figures gathered from the rolls roU of the office showed that coll v up to Saturday night amounted amount amount- ed to not taking hiLL J account the checks in mail mall which had not been opened and will not be opened before Monday It Is estimated that the payments in included in- in d in the unopened mall mail will bring the total collections collections' before I delinquency up to at least The total tax to be collected this year ear amounts to Payment Of taxes has been much heavier and much more prompt this year than last It is pointed out by the treasurer and this is taken to Indicate that money is easier easler or in other words that the property owners owners' are in better financial condition this year than thai they have been A much larger percentage ot or property own owners Ps made payments by mail mall this year than over ever before with the result that the rush at atthe atthe the windows for personal settlements settlements settle settle- ments has been decreased mate mate- J dally MANY SEND CHECKS J There have been been fairly heavy I lines at two windows of ot the ot- ot tot tot- I fice flee during the past ten days or two weeks but nothing like lile there used to be in years ears gone by More people seem to hav ot the tho idea of paying by check and mall mail and thus thu escaping the long tiresome waits walts in line which used to be their lot in the past Treasurer Groesbeck announced that he would woud keep tile the tax windows windows windows win win- dows of his office open until 5 o'clock Saturday to give the public opportunity to make mako payments be before before before be- be fore t the e delinquency period It was waa expected there would be a rush at the t-be he windows T Tills This s was not the case cas case however When theoffice tho the office opened yesterday morning there was ivas no line at all And only a short lIn line formed during the he morning Tho The afternoon was marked by only straggling visitors The mail mall though was unusually heavy The tax windows will be closed now until the delinquent list is isI prepared This must be ready leady and ana must be published on December 10 I Opportunity will then be given to pay up with the 3 per cent pen pen- al alty until December 17 on which date all delinquent property will u. u u offered for tor sale Jf k record has lIas also been made by bythe bythe the tax sales redemption department department department depart depart- ment of ot the treasurers treasurer's office duri during dur dur- i big ing g the month Just closed FigureS Figures Figures Fig Fig- ures issued by this department show that the total redemptions redemptions' for November were which Is the largest amount in the history of the offices for one month it is said