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Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
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Yarmouth-Clare Regional Assessment Committee Records
Series · 1969-1976
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of minutes; correspondence; applications for employment as assessors; letters of appointment to assessors and assistant assessors; budgets; budget sharing accounts showing the amounts payable by the Town of Yarmouth, and the Municipalities of Yarmouth, Argyle and Clare towards the costs of the assessment office; balance sheets; lists of expenditures; financial journal; trial balance book; reports of the director of assessment to the Regional Assessment Committee, etc.
Taxes Relieved Records
Series · 1921-1986
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of a journal and folders which may contain the following: lists of taxes relieved which indicate district number, name of property owner, and amount relieved; petitions for tax relief on account of illness or assessment error; correspondence with the Yarmouth-Clare Assessment Region regarding tax reliefs; tax exemption questionnaires; lists of tax exemptions giving name, address, district, age, and monthly income of applicant, reason for exemption (i.e. age, widowed, or single parent), whether received exemption previously and if so to what amount; total value of exemptions per district; and related correspondence.
Tax petitions
Series · 1863-1885
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of petitions for changes to assessed values of real and personal property for individuals. These petitions were usually created by individuals who wanted changes made to the assessed values of their real and personal property. Tax petitions are very similar in content to the assessment schedules found in RG1 Series F.
Tax Deeds
Series · 1937-1952
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of deeds for properties that were sold by the Municipality of Argyle and correspondence regarding deeds of properties sold by the Municipality of Argyle.
Tax Collector's Rate Rolls
Series · 1893-1986
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of tax collector's rate rolls for the Municipality of the District of Argyle. All rate rolls provide a record of the taxes actually levied, and in some cases a record of payment. The assessed value of personal and real property is also given where assessment rolls and rate rolls exist in a combined format. Rate rolls are arranged chronologically, and within each year by district (except 1941-1955). Rate rolls for 1942-1955 (1941-1955 for district 15) are arranged by district number. The arrangement is alphabetical within the district. The rolls record information on assessed values of real and personal property, taxes levied, poor & poll taxes, dog taxes, and a record of payment. From 1893-1917 rate rolls only exist for a few districts in each year. For the years 1952 to 1977 rate rolls are combined with assessment rolls and will be found in the Tax Assessment Rolls series for the entire period.
Tax Collector's Correspondence, Assessment Appeals, and Associated Material
Series · 1930-1986
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of correspondence, assessment appeals, appeal court records, ratepayers' statements of taxable property and income (1949), fire tax assessments for districts 15 & 17 (1955 & 1956), assessment of household effects survey (1959), fishermen's assessments and related records (1960), mobile home tax assessment records (1971-1972), change in use tax records (1978-1979), notices of new business (new tax accounts -- 1984-1986), etc. The assessment appeal records for 1972 are bulky and amount to approximately one-half of the records in this series. The tax correspondence folder for 1953 has been retained in its entirety as a sample to illustrate the amount and range of correspondence received by the tax collector each year. These folders have been weeded of much extraneous correspondence which contained little more than an announcement of what amounts were being forwarded to reduce the writer's tax bill. This series is arranged chronologically with folders of correspondence and appeal records extant for most years.
Tax collection reports
Series · 1863-1971
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of annual reports of tax collection for the municipality. The reports differ in form and content but information provided includes annual levy, monthly or annual collection, percent of levy collected, reliefs, outstanding amounts, etc.
Tax Assessment Rolls
Series · 1850-1986, predominant 1864-1986
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of tax assessment rolls for the Municipality of the District of Argyle, and prior to 1879, the Township of Argyle. Assessment rolls provide a listing of all property owners within the Municipality of Argyle, and the value of their taxable property. The rolls assess real property, personal property, levy a poll tax and some other taxes (such as dog tax beginning in 1909). There are some gaps in the records and some assessment rolls are incomplete. For the years 1952 to 1977 the assessment rolls are combined with rate rolls. These contain all of the information that would have been found on the assessment rolls as well as the amount of taxes actually levied on individuals. From 1983 assessment rolls were not arranged alphabetically within each district. For each year there is an index to assessment rolls which accompanies the actual rolls and is used as a finding aid.
Tax Arrears and Tax Sale Records
Series · 1921-1979
Part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds
Series forms part of Municipality of the District of Argyle Taxation fonds and consists of tax arrears and tax sale records for the Municipality of Argyle for 1921-1932; 1951-1972; 1975; 1977; 1979. Records for the period 1921-1932 are organized chronologically and record the name of the individual, description of the property, record of taxes in arrears, and in some cases a record of sale. For the period 1951-1979 records consist of files which are arranged chronologically. These files may contain the following items: newspaper advertisements listing properties to be sold for tax arrears, certificates of sale, certificates of purchase, certificates of discharge, letters to individuals regarding properties that are liable to be sold for arrears of taxes, warrants for sale of land, and deeds. All tax arrears and tax sale records pertain to the sale of properties where taxes had not been paid for an extended period of time.