Show REALTOR WRITES WRITE II III LETTER ON 0 N TAXES Urges Delegates to Give Attention to Assessors Assessor's Office Editor Standard Standard Examiner During the Dast past few Cew days we w have bave been receiving from Cram the treasurer ol or Weber eber county our tax notification reminding us that It Is js now time to dig up our taxes No 10 use to complain now that your property Is over valued over val ved for lor taxation purt purposes oses The Thet t taxpayer Is usually little con con- corned with the equities of ot the tax burde burden or tho the administration thereof until the time of ot paying taxes approaches Then he Is primarilY concerned with his bia own tax bill and not at all aH with theother the theother other fellows fellow's assessment totally oblivious of tho the tact fact that where any taxpayer Is favored other taxpayers will enjoy the same or perhaps greater p-cator Immunity Immunity thus ty favor lavor or discrimination resulting In an Increase In his 3 own particular tax burdens This unconcern of ot the tho taxpayer with tM the general problems permits the assessing In a haphazard hit and miss guess method ot of today toda Many taxpayers strike out blindly against the assessor and seek seck a voidance avoidance of o their tax burdens through under assessments or abatements Apparent inequitable assessments and discrimination exist This assessing of o real estate has been given less consideration and Is la more bungled and careless careless- carelessly other l y administered than any function of oC state and yet et the tax atlon of or real estate Is by all odds odd i Tr rm feature of ot our ou I I tax system Over two thirds of aU all local ocal and state revenue is based and obtained on real es- es estate es estate tate The knowledge of o the appraisal of real estate Is the keystone ot of the Industrial commercial and financial world The time Is 13 now at hand when hen we are to select selecta a man for Cor or the office orfice of o assessor who will have ha the tho responsibility of the appraising of o our proper proper- properties properties ties for lor taxation purposes for tor the next four Cour our years The Tho election l of olan an assessor Is generally regarded the least Important officer of ot the thep p partisan ticket Anyone needing a job lob regardless of o Qualifications is deemed good enough and usual usual- usually ly IT y placed at tho the bottom of ot the party ticket there to take pot luck pith his party Many people owning no real and not Dot being Stockholders in any corporation think themselves them them- themselves themselves selves disinterested Every ten ten- tenant tenant tenant ant should be equally Interested In electing an assessor who Is Qualified and w who 10 would absolutely absolutely absolutely discrIminate discriminate show no favors or to anyone any one FRED T FLINDERS Ogden Utah September 24 2419 24 Ise 19 6 M I 1 |