Report of the Wisconsin State Tax Commission. 1898

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Democrat Printing. Company, State Printer, 1898 - 289 strani
 

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Stran 177 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Stran 226 - Brown Buffalo Burnett Calumet Chippewa Clark Columbia Crawford Dane Dodge Door Douglas Dunn Eau Claire Florence Fond Du Lac Forest Grant Green Green Lake Iowa .... Iron Jackson...
Stran 163 - The right to take property by devise or descent is the creature of the law, and not a natural right. a privilege, and therefore the authority which confers it may impose conditions upon it. From these principles it is deduced that the states may tax the privilege, discriminate between relatives, and between these and strangers, and grant exemptions ; and are not precluded from this power by the provisions of the respective state constitutions requiring uniformity and equality of taxation.
Stran 56 - Upon the payment of a bid to the comptroller he shall give to the purchaser a written certificate, describing the lands purchased, the sum paid and the time when the purchaser will be entitled to a deed.
Stran 13 - no aid, tax, tallage, assessment, custom, loan, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied on any of their majesties' subjects, or their estates, on any color or pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people assembled in general court.
Stran 90 - Commissioners when levying the taxes for each fiscal year shall levy an ad valorem tax of one-tenth of one per cent of the assessed value of all real and personal property...
Stran 43 - In determining the value the assessor shall consider, as to each piece, its advantage or disadvantage of location, quality of soil, quantity of standing timber, water privileges, mines, minerals, quarries, or other valuable deposits known to be available therein, and their value.
Stran 116 - In conclusion, let us say that this is eminently a practical age ; that courts must recognize things as they are and as possessing a value which is accorded to them in the markets of the world, and that no finespun theories about situs should interfere to enable these large corporations, whose business is carried on through many states, to escape from bearing in each state such burden of taxation as a fair distribution of the actual value of their property among those states requires.
Stran 12 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Stran 87 - That the levying of taxes by the poll is grievous and oppressive, and ought to be prohibited...

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