TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
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1. Make a list of enterprises supported out of public funds and providing services free to all, regardless of the payment of taxes.
2. Discover which of the following taxes are levied in your state: general property tax, income tax, inheritance tax, poll tax, license tax, transaction tax, sales tax, luxury tax, mortgage tax, franchise tax, excess profits tax.
3. Are tax assessors in your locality appointed or elected? Are there county or state boards of equalization in your state? How are these boards chosen?
4. Interview a friendly tax assessor concerning the difficulties of determining property values. Does he believe that people systematically undervalue their own property? What proposals does he make for the reform of the present method of assessment?
5. Interview a friendly taxpayer. What is his attitude toward the poll tax? the general property tax? the income tax? What proposals does he make for the reform of taxation in your state?
6. The general property tax in your state.
7. Status of the income tax in your state.
8. Status of the inheritance tax in your state.
9. The taxation of corporations in your state.