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Show New Record System. T Simplify County Work Five-Year Record On One Sheet; Offices Combine A new system for assessment records is being set up in Duchesne Du-chesne County this year, reports G. B. Workman, assessor. All of a person's real estate holdings in each section or block is recorded on an individual assessment as-sessment roll sheet which has sufficient suf-ficient space for a five-year record rec-ord of assessment and payment. Personal property assessment attached at-tached to real estate for current year's taxes are listed at the bottom bot-tom of this sheet. The new assessment as-sessment roll sheets, which measure mea-sure 13 by 9'2 inches, are unbound un-bound and filed in portable trays. The "assessment roll" side of . the sheet carries the name and address of the property owner, the serial number and description of property. Real estate classifications classifica-tions listed are residential, commercial com-mercial - industrial, agricultural, unclassified. Inasmuch as tax notices no-tices will be' printed using this same classification of real estate, the number of acres of the various types of land will not be shown as has been done formerly, Mr. Workman said. Formerly the land types were shown as irrigated, dry, unimproved, pasture and grazing land. On the 1955 valuation valua-tion and tax notices, real estate will be listed under the one classification class-ification "agricultural." Lots will be listed as residential or commercial. com-mercial. The assessor explained that land owners will find the total assessed value to be the same on this land as last year, except in special cases cas-es where he has been in touch with the landowner relative to the assessed value of the land. These classifications are carried on a separate record, however, in the assessor's office, and known as the "blue card" files, and are available to the landowner for checking acreage and values. The form sheet classifies buildings, build-ings, structures, etc, as residential, residen-tial, commercial-industrial and agricultural. ag-ricultural. Space provided for personal property pro-perty assessment includes motor vehicles, merchandise and fixtures, commercial and industrial machinery, machin-ery, other personal property, range cattle, other cattle, horses and mules, sheep, other animals, poultry. Line 22 on the assessment roll sheet gives space to enter the property owner's exemptions, such as those allowed to disabled veterans, vet-erans, to widows of veterans, to the blind, and to the poor. The other side of the sheet is dubbed "property tax ledger," and allows record space for the five-year five-year payment of taxes. Ledger headings are listed as "value subject sub-ject to special taxes," "tital assessed as-sessed value," "levy (mills)," "taxes "tax-es charged," "credits," "balance," "memo." Some advantages of the new system is discontinuing the making mak-ing of the huge roll books, and having a five-year tax record of a piece of property shown on one small sheet. Previously, searching for this information would have entailed looking through indexes and five large roll books. The five-year ledger sheet will decrease de-crease the amount of printing with the addressograph unit since the ledger sheets need to be printed print-ed but once in five years, unless there is a change in ownership to all or part of a piece of property. The new system saves duplication duplica-tion of work, according to Mr. Workman. He says, "formerly the assessor entered the values of all types of property on the rolls; they were then sent to the treasurer trea-surer who had to make a copy of the assessment onto a valuation notice, thus going over the same work. Now the valuation notice will be posted or typed at the same time the tax record is made in the assessor's office. "Also, when the auditor, or county clerk computes the taxes, he will be entering the same information in-formation on the tax notice that he enters on the roll sheet. Formerly For-merly this was extra work for the treasurer who had to make a copy of the auditor's work. "Very close cooperation between be-tween the three departments will be neccessitated by inauguration of the new system. In fact, either we or our deputies will hardly know to which department we belong, be-long, as we will need to spend considerable time assisting each other with the work.- But that won't matter. We are just one big happy family here, anyway; and it is the desire of all of us to do the best possible job for our county," Mr. Workman said. Assessor Workman states that this system, approved by the Utah State Tax Commission, has been in use in several of the counties of the state for a number num-ber of years and is being adopted by other counties now. |