WAUPACA COUNTY NEWS

December 28, 1922

GET NEW AUTO LICENSE

THIS IS LAST WEEK 1922 PLATES CAN BE USED

            Automobile owners will pay their regular license fee of $10 and the established general property tax for 1923 despite any action by the 1923 legislature to alter the methods of motor vehicle transportation, the secretary of state announced today.

            Bills to e introduced in the coming session of the legislature, if enacted into law, will not become effective until 1924, it is said.  This means that auto owners should prepare to meet the same license fee and taxes imposed last year.

            The flat $10 license fee which all owners of pleasure vehicles must pay will be due Jan. 1, if car owners intend to drive after that time.  They are subject to prosecution if without the new 1923 license after that time, the secretary of state says.

            In addition automobiles will be assessed as personal property and a tax levied against them at the prevailing local rate.  This personal property tax may then be off-set against the individual’s state income tax.

            Should the financing program of the county boards be enacted by the legislature then the whole automobile taxing plan would be changed for 1924, but would be without effect in 1923.