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Excerpt from Report of the Joint Legislative Committee on Taxation of the State of New York: Transmitted to the Legislature February 14, 1916 The taxation of personal property in the State of New York has presented a serious problem for the last fifty years. Prior to 1852, because of the low rate, the burden of the tax does not seem to have been seriously felt, nor the inequalities which have since arisen in its administration to have existed. However, in 1872, the rate for state and local purposes had risen to three per cent and the defects and injustice of the taxation of personal property at the general property rate became more and more apparent. The situation resulted in the appointment...