Show collections ahe HIGH fa f I 1 s oil milard bounty GOU NTy FOR yeah 9 oqual more than half of current collections i i with the date of final settlement V still more than a month away 1937 jf tax collections are now better than 31 at any time in the past 13 years ac cording to county trea Tre aurer it R N day 86 per cent of the 1937 taxes have been paid to date or a total of va incidentally during 1937 the treasurer also collected 65 in back taxes or over halt as much as was collected tor for cur rent taxes this collection of re 9 demotion dempt demp lon tion money was also the highest t in thirteen years with the ex of redemptions of 36 which j i 1 were slightly higher j i l in the year 1926 which was I 1 the best year for or yield in the delta district redemptions were only 64 88 it will be seen that back in the years of 1932 and 1933 were the dark days for or collection of 0 taxes ift current taxes were collected only slightly above cent and re dempt lons Ions were only about a third w of what they have been in the past two years the ability of property owners to pay Is without doubt one of the greatest reasons tor for the differ 49 ja ence but it Is not everything the question naturally arises why are tre fa 1 collections better now than they were in the heydays of 28 and 29 ae three of the many reasons that may p be given are 1 much of the poor er property has passed to the coun J ty through tax sales and Is no long jay er taxed 2 consideration baa has r been shown the taxpayer by ions of the levy by taxing units and the reduction of interest and penal ties on past due taxes by the state fi legislature 3 the attitude of the 4 taxpayers has been changed by the county commissioners Commissio so that the a taxpayers now believe they have to be paid by everyone whereas anum a number of years ago it was thought that the smart man could get a lot of his taxes forgiven another encouraging condition from the taxpayers point of view Is the decrease in billiard millard county a bonded indebtedness back in 1025 the county s bonded indebtedness IT was today it has been v reduced to this amount will be paid in three equal inseal 4 i ments and one third of 0 this amount is now on hand to pay this year s instalment installment which falls due next t october r 1 wk progress fillmore s i |