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Show Shop Early and Avoid Rush, Automobile Taxpayers Told County Assessor's Aid Warns Against Trying to Put Car on Real Estate Roles Improperly Automobile owners with flat feet, corns, bunions and small patience Thursday were advised by attaches of the Salt Lake county assessor's office to pay property taxes on their cars early and avoid the usual annual rush. Taxes are now due and payable' at room 107, city and county building. Property taxes on cars, unless attached to real estate legally standing In the name of the car owner, must be paid before 1940 license plates will be issued, explained ex-plained J. Irwin. Johnson, deputy assessor in charge of the auto tax division. Deadline for affixing 1940 license plates to automobiles. It was added, .is set by law for not later than March 1. Up to the present, only 2000 Salt Lake county motorists have paid current taxes on their cars. In 1939 that branch of the assessor's office "cleared" approximately 70,000 cars. Cash receipts were issued on 48,391 cars cleared last year, said Mr. Johnson. About 2000 of last year's clearances clear-ances were attached to real estate and remains of the 1939 volume represented exempt cars and cars which stood in the name of dealers on January 1, 1939. A "hard-and-fast" rule has been made not to check records for car owners desiring to have current taxes attached to real property unless applicants present a 1939 tax receipt showing payment in full of last year's real property taxes and records ahowine that title of the car and real estate are listed in the same name and are located in the same taxing district. "Last year," Assessor A. J. Skid-more Skid-more said, "several car owners succeeded suc-ceeded temporarily in misleading tax collectors by attaching cars used in Salt Lake City to real estate they owned In taxing units where tax levies were lower than in Salt Lake City. The ruse wss soon discovered, however, and car owners compelled to pay an honest tax." . |