Farm Bureau Wins Tax Fight 



(Continued 



Tax Commission to modify its decision. 

 We put the matter squarely up to our 

 Farm Bureau members. They told us to 

 go ahead and fight. To show that they 

 meant it, 331 signed an agreement to bear 

 the costs of court action. We went so far 

 as to employ a local attorney. Before any 

 call was made for funds 101 Farm Bu- 

 reau members made donations of $5 to 

 $25 each. All this money was later re- 

 funded. 



"In the meantime we laid the whole 

 matter, with a transcript of the record, 

 before Mr. Earl C. Smith, president of the 

 lAA. Further conferences were held 

 with the Tax Commission following 

 which the Commission conferred with 

 the Board of Review, which announced 

 that an adjustment of $3,500,000 would 

 be made in farm land assessments. The 

 actual figure exceeded this amount. 



"The adjustments in each township 

 finally made, adhered closely to the re- 

 ports of the Fact- Finding Committee and 

 the Farm Bureau Tax Committee." 



The County Board of Review, com- 

 posed of Gus Haller, chairman; John H. 

 Schafer, the new farmer member; and 

 Orville L. Hodge, finally performed ably 

 a most difficult task. It was necessary, of 

 course, to see that tax revenues in each 

 township as well as in the county, were 

 sufficient to carry on local government. 

 Throughout this period there was much 

 unemployment in the cities and villages, 

 and as Mr. Schafer expressed it: "the law 

 is plain and uniformity must be the rule 

 in levying property taxes, but farmers 

 must not forget that a home owner in 

 town, without a job, is less able to pay 

 taxes than farmers who get income from 

 their property even though it is reduced 

 in times of low prices." 



Among the townships Olive and Leet 

 received the largest reductions in farm 

 land valuations at 41 and 37 per cent 

 respectively. Omphghent township re- 

 ceived the smallest reduction at 10 per 

 cent. A substantial number of townships 

 received reductions of more than 30 per 



cent. 



To bring about an equitable assessment 

 the Farm Bureau Tax Committee and the 

 Board of Review studied the productivity 

 and soil types of each township and made 

 a sincere effort to adjust valuations in 

 line with the facts. 



Today the average assessment and valu- 

 ation of farm lands in Madison county, 

 according to Mr. Castle, is about 48 per 

 cent — still somewhat higher than assess- 

 ments of city property. It was agreed that 

 this would be left to stand until the next 

 quadrennial reassessment in 1939. 



'We are more than pleased with the 

 tax reduction we got," said Edwin Reth- 

 meier who resides on his uncle's farm in 



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Edwardsville township. "My uncle saved 

 $126 on three farms." 



Herman Schaefer, a neighbor, got a 

 reduction of $26.95 on his 126 acre farm. 

 "We are mighty grateful to the Farm 

 Bureau for this tax reduction. " said 

 Schaefer, "but it is not right for the non- 

 members to get the benefit of what the 

 Farm Bureau has done." 



"Thanks to Stanly Castle and the Farm 

 Bureau, our tax saving is $63.04," re- 

 ported August Schaeper of Olive town- 

 ship. TTiis is on a 236 acre farm. 



Otto F. Henke of the same township 

 reported a cut of $71.25 on 1937 taxes 

 compared with 1936, on 278 acres. 



As a result of the successful conclusion 

 of the tax equalization fight, many non- 

 members have come in voluntarily and 

 joined the Farm Bureau. 



The fact that farmers of the county 

 were aroused at numerous township meet- 

 ings as well as in several county -wide 

 meetings; that the township committees 

 appealed to their local assessors and that 

 the county committee and its chairman, 

 Stanly Castle, refused to quit despite ob- 

 stacles and numerous disappointments 

 were responsible for the final outcome. 



"It could not have been done without 

 the loyal support of the entire county 

 membership and our state organization," 

 Mr. Castle said. "The township tax 

 committees and all the members deserve 

 the credit for what has been accom- 

 plished. " 



Just now the Farm Bureau is continu- 

 ing its checks of farm lands and city 

 property sales recorded since April 1, 

 1937 in preparation for the quadrennial 

 assessment in 1939. This work will be 

 continued until Apr. 1, 1939 when the 

 information will be made available to 

 the township assessors in an effort to 

 secure whatever additional equalization 

 of assessments seems justified. 



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