Tax Dodge by Chicago Investors in Kansas City Firms
A Chicago insider notes 25 million dollars in Kansas City holdings controlled by Samuel McRoberts and J Ogden Armour, including the Kansas City Railway and Light Company and the Metropolitan Street Railway. The piece urges Board of Review scrutiny to tax outsiders and fund city needs like schools and police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Railway and Light Company
Chicago
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Kansas City
Kansas City Electric Light Company
J. Ogden Armour
Samuel McRoberts
Kan
Westport
Independence
Argentine
Rosedale
McRoberts
Board of Review
Edison Electric Light and Power Company
Consolidated Electric Light and Power Company
United Electric Company
Kansas
Mcttoberts
Board of
Kansas City Railroad
Taxes on Chicago stock of foreign firms reach twenty million
An affiliated Chicago newspaper warns that stocks of outside corporations owned in Chicago escape taxation under state law. It cites Swift & Company and Armour interests with potential five year back taxes totaling millions, urging the Board of Review to pursue assets to fund city services and public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Illinois
Board of Assessors
Board of Review
Chicago Eagle
Supreme Court
Swift's Refrigerator Transportation Company
Maine
Supreme Court of Illinois
Deneep
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago Junction Railway
New Jersey
North American Transportation and Trading Company
Union Stock Yards Company
South Omaha
Nebraska
Union Stock Yards of
People's Treasury
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Kansas City
Swift & Company
Illnois
United States
New York
Swift Fertilizer Works
Georgia
Swift Refrigerator Transportation Company
Swift Live Stock Transportation Company
Swift Beef Company, Limited
Great Britain
Swift Packing Company
Swift & Company of
Germany
Swift & Company of Illinois
Omaha
C. H. Davis & Co
Norwich
Armour & Company of
United States Commissioner of Corporations
New Jersey Corporation
Illinois Corporation
Armour & Co
Armour Packing Houses
Sioux City
Fort Worth
Bronx City
J. Ogden Armour
Laula F. Swift
John A. Spoor
Laurence A. Carton
Arthur Meeker
Mr. Swift
Mr. Armour
Armour
Hammond Packing Company
National Packing Company
United States Leather Company
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Union Stock Yards
Fowler Brothers, Limited
St. Louis National Stock Yards
Comany
Trollla Cold Storage Company
Illinois Cattle Company, Mechanical Manufacturing Company
South San Francisco Land & Improvement Company
Springfield Provision Company
Swift's Fertilizer Works
Western Meat Company
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Joods
Che Fair
Adaens and
Dearbera Sts
George W. Jackson, Inc
W. Jackson Blvd
Quincy Street
Steel Works
Elston Ave
Mendel St
John M. Ewen
the Rookery
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