The Knoxville News-Sentinel du lieu suivant : Knoxville, Tennessee • 9

i as a mj 1 mmm ffc IBB BMMRB RVBHMMI MBRWyt NH Mi inpy Sell Education Not Sales Tax Nashville Councilman Urges LAN ASKS TAX CUT 'J' NASHVILLE Aug ig W-The' Louisville and NashviN rail establish local sales taxes She pointed out that: 1 EhetfkRy cent fuel oil and nature! or artificial in $160 Radio Stolon John Elson 2001 Ogden Ave told police someone stole a short-wave radio valued at SIN and a 875 typewriter from his home yesterday He uid the theft occurred white he and his son George were bowling Mr Elson told officers entry was gained through a back door road asked the Tennessee Pub-lie Service 838 ON AW from its ad trtnrihfc tax assessment for thte fisWh year The company the local sales ateflbay had be sold bn the Mr May looked over the crowd at meet-tauU spotted no Negroes said Tatara already made one mie-JtateThere art no Negroes pres-ent" He said another selling point ter the sales tax is that it goes up every year with the standard of the more money spent the more tax revenues received is no need for that the SS40N0N Hgurt reputed at any time by another referendum the state law uys may be repuled in the ume manner" the 1963-enacted law uys No time limitation is placed tor repeal But if the tax measure ia rejected at the polls there could not be another referendum within two yurs County Court by resolution Aug 5 called for the referendum To repeal another referendum would have to be held and voted out by the people fair compared with in which the company operated All I said was are exempt tax 2 By law a local sales tax cannot be mare than one-third of the state sales tax that the local sales tax can never be hiked without a prior rise in the state's 3 per cent sales tax 8 By law and by city-county agreement all the money railed must go ter education and it will be aplit according to where the children are This means that this year 76 per cent of the money would go to city schools 30 per cent to county Stew me a liter that realy delivers Cent or Dollar Is Sales Tax Cry taste and I'll eat my Nashville-Lebanon 1-40 Leg Opened Ly no v- pretty ipohsimoo for approval a local sales tax has spoken in communities ever the state PuwcBLtaduy writes Page comes usually own their own homes to that a property tax increau wouM hurt them badly" she uid "And with heat hi fuel exempt from the local ules tax they will spend leu on taxable items than higher income families" After Miss Scaadya's talk thera were several questions from the floor end the two most persistent reflected a frank nuapieion of County Court's future action The Court In approving a 81 property tax to for next year hu premised to wipe out the increau immediately if the voters approve the ules tax But some members of the audience: 1 Wondered if the Court would realty do this or simply leave the higher tax rate in effect 2 Wondered if the Court would actually leave the 81 property tax hike on the hooka if the voters rejected the ules tax There seemed to be some opinion that the Court wouldn't have the nerve to do that since new County Court will be elected next year 8 Wandered if the realty was needed 4 Wondered if the raised would actually go for education Insurance executive Chester Massey who preaided at the meeting uid that the aoon -to-be -organized committee which will lead the fight for the ules tax will see that there questions are answered in clear and unmistakable terms pouibte Although no date was set Mr Massey uid that another meeting of thou interested in the ules tax campaiga will soon be held at which time a more definite organiution would take shape Sad ri try Hu uid it de pendency on them Steps up "Kan County win mob have the highest tax rate in the stataL" f' As to state fluids May said urban areas can expect very little relief as lone as the Legislature is controlled by rural distrlctr' "Were entitled to more state funds" he said "but not going to get them for years and Adaam Regers Attend "Whendoeathat he asked "The sales tax is the onlv'answer Cdbnty Judge Howard Bozeman lad a county delegation of squirts at the meeting and MaVor Leonard Rogers rep-resented'the city Others present Included Sunt Olin Adams of tMe City Schools and members of the Chamber of Commerce Mr May made no bones about the sale tax He said is regressive we admiyit is regressive but poor schools are more regressive" He admitted that the millionaire pays lower percentage of his Income in sales taxes than the man maUnR S30Q0 a year hut these people in low in-comk brackets will be helped because their children will get a better education-He said Nashville got the ball roUkg in its sales tax campaign by soliciting money from large business and industrial firms to cany out the campaign "Then we organized a STEP committee (Sales Tax for Education and Progress) made up of wprtaehtatives of both political parties business labor and teachers" said Mr May Groups such ag the League of Women Voters and P-TA were lined up and civic and in glee ter they expected a huge -rash of business from rare the street hi Briatol Tens Bristol Is Exempli "But Just coma Thee Bristol Va decided it wu missing out on a good thing and it put ia a 2 per cent ules tax too And a tew yearn later tea the Tennessee ules tax wu raised to 3 per cent Bristol Va promptly railed its local sales tax to 3 per cent too" "It Just doesn't make sense to think that someone is going to drive 20 or 30 mile to shop Just to uve 10 Miss Scandtyn uid Sears a vast department store chain has reported that it hu experienced no ules decline ia communities which adopt local ules taxes Mias Scendtya uid And Miu Scandlyn reminded her audience that if local governments are not allowed to create their own ules taxes there will be more and more preuure in the State Legislature to raise the state sales tax" And this she pointed out would be distinctly to Knox County's diudvantage for the state sales taxes are redistributed in Nashville with the smaller poorer counties reaping a large share of the tax monies collected Hi the larger metropolitan counties such as Knox Seven Cents Per Family The ules tax on Knox Count iana would average out to about seven cents per day per family she uid adding that in nearly every cau a ules tax would cost the average Knox County property owner leu than a comparable property tax increau a property tax increau would affect you leu probably underassessed and 1 wouldn't uy anything about it if I were she uid Miu Scandtyn uid that a local ules tax would probably be easier on tow-income people than on others particularly the elderly retired "Retired people with fixed in- An additional stretch of Interstate 40 has hem opened 2S mites between Lebanon and Nuhville giving a total of 24S mites in use between Knoxville and Memphis Luke Wright East Tennessee (AAA) Automobile Club manager uid today All of 1-40 is now under construction or in uu between Nashville and Memphis That is scheduled to be the rase be-tweu Knoxville and Nashville by next June 30 To take full advantage of 1-40 from Knoxville to Nashville motorists are advised to go 1-40 to beyond Rockwood then on 70 to Crossville 70-N to Monterey 1-40 for 44 miles to Gordonsvilte 73-N to Lebanon and then 1-40 into Nashville either vote for one cent or one dollar!" Greater Knoxville Chamber of Commerce President David Blumberg said it last night and likely to become the keynote to the coming campaign to establish a one-cent tales tax here to support Knoxville and Knox County schools A group of about SO persons met at Young High School test night in the first publicly announced meeting to whip together an organization to spearhead the fight to create the one-cent tax The "one cent or one phrase means that Knox Coun-lians will either vote the one cent sales tax in referendum Sept 23 or get hit with a staggering one-dollar hike in the county property tax rate a 28 per cent increase from the current 8354 per 8100 asi valuation Reviews Previsiens "The issue in Knox said Sammie Lynn Scandlyn a sales tax specialist with U-Ts Municipal Technical Advisory 4 The tax is selected by the state which keeps 3 per this is soon to be dropped to 2 per as a fee for collecting and returning the money 5 Local retallare collecting the money before sending it to the State Department of Revenue are allowed to keep 2 per cent of their collections to cover collection expenses And there will be no additional paperwork for the local retailers simply have to fill in another column on the pink stipe they now use to collect the three-cent state ules tax sales tax will mean 84000000 to Knoxville and Knox County Miss Scandlyn uid "And a conservative estimate The estimates so far have all been lower than has been actually realized by the communities voting in the Miss Scandlyn vigorously at tacked the assumption that a local ules tax drives sway retail busineu "It simply doesn't happen' she uid "It can be proven in any one of the SON communities over the nation which have local ules taxes "Take the case of what happened in Bristol Tenn and Briatol Va two towns that are really one When the 2 per cent ules tax went into effect in Tennessee the Bristol Va merchants rubbed their hands HEADS FUND DRIVE CLEVELAND Tenn Aug 18 A Cleveland lawyer Robert McMurray has been named chairman of the Cleveland-Bradley County Community Chest's fund-raising drive Oi 4 'LAST 3 mw tire Service not IF we are going aociul MgNiations were to pay more in taxes but HOW Repeal Would Also Be by Vote brought into the picture to do we will pay those the footwork limilWM Mi ik aSAita Sa Miss Scandlyn reviewed the wMiiiutyfi iu mwcii ms Hu pointed out that IS per cent provisions of the 1963 law that ef Nashville's voters are Negro allows cities end counties to If the one-cent focal sales tax is adopted Sept 23 it could be NEW! 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