Show TAX ASSESSOR TALKS TO CLUB The rhe automobile Is changing the values alues of ot property from one end of the th city elly to the th other County Assessor A G 0 tol told l Ni- Ni Kl at their weekly luncheon at the Weber eber club today In his address on Taxation Mr Sir Berrett explained that with the shifting of desirable locations the burden of taxation must also change Iti It It Is when we lower one mans man's tax lax and raise another that we e receive kl kicks ks he declared not from t the tle e man whoso whose tax was as low low- lowered lowered low lowered ered but from front the man whose tax raised raised raised was of fifth Twenty years ago ao a part Twenty fifth street was a flour flour- flour lehing section but today grass Is growing through the th cracks In the sidewalk and therefore the th atlon should be b lowered 1 When hen Mr Ir Berrett took io k office four Cour years ago he said he toun found that a piece of ot property on one onside one side of th the street would be at per per per- percent cent more nore than a sImIlar piece of prop property on on on the theother theother theother other side fid or that one piece would b be valued at 10 19 per front toot oot more than another on the th same sanle block When hen we w started to equalize the th assessment we ran Into trou- trou trouble trou trouble ble he said for tor we e would raise one me mans man's taxes and lower the th others other's The man whoso hose taxes were raised through an increased valuation would demand Why should my property be worth 50 per cent more money this year ear than It was last year l His prop erty prop prop- property erty elty wasn't worth more but was just properly assessed If It we e reduce taxes In itt one section they must be raised in another There TherIs Is a a continual readjustment of values Utah has hILs one of of the th most anti antl- antiquated anti antiquated out date lame decrepit tax systems In the United States Inthe old days das all a mans man's prop prop- property property property erty tangible aa but today It Is not and wo we need an adjustment of of our tax tax system so the th revenue tree free property will carry Its share sharo of the tax burden I 1 believe the tho burden b should be carried by all classes of prop- prop property property erty In proportion to th the value alue of that property In dollars and cents Howard Shupe sang sane several solos 00 00 |