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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt:...subdiv. 15. / Report of Wisconsin Tax Commission, 1909, p. 105. 0 Laws 1883, chap. 345. Laws 1885, chap. 337. Laws 1891, chap. 166. i Laws 1897, chap. 309. 917400--11 8 The State Treasurer's Report, 1907-8, states,' especially with reference to farmers' mutual companies, that some more equitable system of taxing telephone companies should be devised whereby the State would.derive its just share of taxes. This statement is supported by statistics which show that 38 companies pay no taxes to the State, 10 companies pay from 2 to 7 cents each, and 54 companies pay over 7 cents and less than $1 each. One company reporting nearly 10,000 miles of wire within the State pays a total tax of $25.72. The governor, in his message of 1909, advocates the application of the ad valorem method to these companies.d Bibliography. The following is a list of the more important publications, in addition to the constitution, the statutes, and the court reports, of value in the study of corporate taxation in Wisconsin: Reports of Wisconsin State Tax Commission, 1898, 1901, 1903, 1907, and 1909. Biennial Reports of the State Treasurer, 1907-8, 1909-10. Biennial Reports of the Secretary of State, 1907-8, 1909-10. Messages of the Governors of Wisconsin, 1901, 1903, and 1909. Instructions to Assessors and Boards of Review, issued by the Wisconsin State Tax Commission, 1908. The Financial History of Wisconsin, Raymond Vincent Phelan, Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, No. 193, January, 1908; Economics and Political Science Series, vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 183-475. The Taxation of the Gross Receipts of Railways in Wisconsin, Guy Edward Snider; Publications of the American Economic Association, November, 1906, third series, Vol. VII, No. 4. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Super...