Reorganization of Local Government

Archive Report

Demands for Economy and Cuts in Local Taxes

All Except Five1 of the state legislatures will be in regular session in 1933, most of them convening early in January. Almost without exception these bodies will have before them questions of government economy, mainly in response to the demands of taxpayers' organizations for specific programs of governmental reform and reorganization which will permit a lowering of tax rates on real estate—rural and urban. Indiana and Michigan recently restricted the real estate tax rate to $15 per $1.000 of assessed valuation—Indiana by special act of the legislature and Michigan by adoption of a constitutional amendment at the election of November 8, 1932. In Washington there is a tax limit of $40 per $1,000 on an assessment basis ...

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