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When commissioner of revenue Merle Scoggin asked the supervisor* to review personal property taxes two months ago, she pointed out her office’s difficulty in administering the tax on household belongings. She has maintained repeatedly that individual tax bills—particularly for household goods but also for farm machinery and livestock—depend entirely on honesty in reporting what is owned and the true value of holdings. Scoggin has emphasized that the commissioner of revenue’s office doesn’t have the time or the expertise to go from house to house, bam to bam and field to field, estimating value on
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