THE REGULATION OF BUSINESS
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"For analogous reasons taxes paid on personal property in other states cannot be used to offset the income tax of this state. A tax paid on personalty in one assessment district, however, may be used to offset an income tax in another district."
The rates are low, the exemptions reasonable and 70 per cent of the revenue will go into the local treasury. The wording of the administrative portion is very strong with centralization in the tax commission. The assessors will be selected under civil service and no pains have been spared to make the act enforceable and equitable to a high degree. Perhaps no other state in the Union could attempt to install machinery of this sort without political wire pulling or favoritism. This part of the law reads:—