Report of Committee to Investigate Assessment and Taxation: State of Tennessee, 1915

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McQuiddy printing Company, 1915 - 108 pages
 

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Page 37 - Legislature shall direct, so that taxes shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than...
Page 67 - Every person violating any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days.
Page 53 - An Act to provide more just and equitable laws for the assessment and collection of revenue for State, county, and municipal purposes ; and to repeal all laws in conflict with this Act, whereby revenue is collected from the assessment of real estate, personal property, privileges, and polls...
Page 37 - ... worth of personal property in the hands of each taxpayer, and the direct product of the soil in the hands of the producer, and his immediate vendee. All property shall be taxed according to its value, that value to be ascertained in such manner as the Legislature shall direct, so that taxes shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of the same value, but the Legislature...
Page 5 - The general property tax as actually administered is, beyond all doubt, one of the worst taxes known in the civilized world.
Page 83 - The county judge shall cause copies of said order to be posted up in three public places in the county, one of which shall be at the court house...
Page 64 - There shall be kept at all times in the office where the business of such bank or banking association, organized under the authority of this state or of the United States, shall be transacted, a full and correct list of the names and residences of all the stockholders therein, and of the number of shares held by each ; and such list shall be subject to the inspection of...
Page 38 - All male citizens of this State over the age of twenty-one years, except such persons as may be exempted by law on account of age or other infirmity, shall be liable to a poll tax of not less than fifty cents nor more than one dollar per annum ; nor shall any county or corporation levy a poll tax exceeding the amount levied by the State.
Page 38 - The General Assembly shall have power to authorize the several counties and incorporated towns in this State to impose taxes for county and corporation purposes, respectively, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law; and all property shall be taxed according to its value, upon the principles established in regard to State taxation.
Page 37 - All property — real, personal, or mixed — shall be taxed; but the Legislature may exempt such as may be held by the State, by counties, cities, or towns, and used exclusively for public or corporation purposes, and such as may be held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational...

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