Author: Montana State Tax Commission Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781334833793 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 62
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Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the State Tax Commissioner, 1914 A meeting of the Commission was held on April 2, 1913, all the members of the Commission being present, and the terms and provisions of the Tax Commission Law were discussed. It was decided that the Tax Commissioner should visit as many of the counties of the state as possible during the assessing season of 1913, to aid the assessors in their work where possible, and to become familiar with methods and condi tions as to the valuation of various classes of property in the State for assessment purposes. At a inserting of the Commission held April 14, 1913, Miss {alta Sanders was employed as acting secretary, at a salary of $100 per month, and was succeeded in June, 1914, by Mr. Harry Welcome, as Secretary, at the same salary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801870542 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 181
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Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a broad spectrum of social problems. In The Price of Progress, R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson offers a fresh analysis of therelationship between those two revolutions. Using previously unexploited data from the annual reports of state treasurers and comptrollers, he provides a detailed, empirical assessment of the goods and services provided to citizens, as well as the resources extracted from them, by state governments during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.Focusing on New York, Massachusetts, California, and Kansas, but including data on 13 other states, his comparative study suggests that the "corporate state" originated in tax policies designed to finance new and innovative government services. Business and government grew together in a surprising and complex fashion. In the late nineteenth century, services such as mental health care for the needy and free elementary education for all children created new strains on the states' old property tax systems. In order to pay for newly constructed state asylums and schools, states experimented for the first time with corporate taxation as a source of revenue, linking state revenues to the profitability of industries such as railroads and utilities. To control their tax bills, big businessesintensified lobbying efforts in state legislatures, captured important positions in state tax bureaus, and sponsored a variety of government-efficiency reform organizations. The unintended result of corporate taxation—imposed to allow states to fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens—was the creation of increasingly intimate ties between politicians, bureaucrats, corporate leaders, and progressive citizens. By the 1920s, a variety of "corporate states" had proliferated across the nation, each shaped by a particular mix of taxation and public services, each offering a case study in how the business of America, as President Calvin Coolidge put it, became business. -- Tonya K. Flesher
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