| Show county officers told to stop tax dodging at the amanual convention of the county officers in salt lake last pi l iday attorney general george urged county officials to exel exercise cise more of their legal power to prevent existing tax dodgers and promise 1 to back them in the procedure proc eduie generally speaking county assessors 6 hane hae more legal power to levy and collect taxes than they use the attorney general declared declai ed irk in answer to a direct inquiry he enumerated the tax exempt property as follows federal owned property properly property owned b by th the e Y state and municipal govel governments property pro propel ty used tor for strictly i religious and charitable purposes property pro perEy amiel by indians indiana as long as they are associated with their tribes lind and niort mortgages gages on an all real and personal property with these exceptions and possible sibl r a few special cases property should be aas assessed essed and taxes collected judge parker pointed out arto roscoe accie E hammond Ham moni secretary of 0 the state board of equalization traced the development of tax systems throughout the united states the trend from in an point of view he be said Is toward a central authority adequately equipped to aid assessors in making assessments sess ments while on the tha tax structure itself the trend Is away from the general property tax as the sole basis of obtaining revenue and towards diversification of the tax burden by finding and creating more inore tax sluices sou ices |
