City Commissioner Urges! S.L Sales Tax Increase By DUANE CARDALL Chronicle Staff Writer A one-half cent sale tax increase in Salt Lake City would help bring financial stability to the city said City Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison Har-rison Monday. "Some cities have had tt. politan government and it I worked well while others J tried it and it hasn't worked a j well," said Mr. Harrison, j i Annexation Of Areas Another method for solving j problem would be orderly annex tion of populated areas, he s& He pointed out that this would more probable than metropoli: government. "The best thing to do at tbjra . ent time," said Commissioner Hj rison, "is to neutralize the situat: l by a one-half cent sales tax : crease, which would in turn Ik the property tax in the county:: -city." ' Speaking before Dr. Brad Hains-worth's Hains-worth's Political Science 10 class, Mr. Harrison stated, "There are three kinds of taxes that will bring revenue. They are income, property prop-erty and sales taxes." Less Protest He said these taxes are accompanied accom-panied by less protest and at the same time bring more revenue. Also these taxes are more fair, he said. "We can't increase property taxes in Salt Lake City because they are already at the ceiling," said Commissioner Harrison. "We aren't allowed by the state government gov-ernment to levy a tax on income, therefore, we're left with a sales tax increase." Citizen Protest He pointed out that a tax producing produc-ing less revenue was passed and it brought much protest from citizens. citi-zens. The controversial sewer tax brings in about $600,000 a year, he said. "A one-half cent sales tax increase in-crease would bring the city around $3 million a year," said Mr. Harrison. Harri-son. Commissioner Harrison also discussed dis-cussed the problem of double taxation. tax-ation. He called it, "Inter -local tax conflicts instead of double taxation." taxa-tion." Ways To Defeat Problem "There are many different ways to defeat this problem," he said. "Possibly the easiest way to do this is to incorporate metropolitan government gov-ernment but I doubt we'll live to see the day when this area will have metropolitan government." He stated that we're not the only city with this problem. Many cities throughout the U.S. are confronted with the same problem, he said.