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Show THE CITIZEN 12 ' r ' ' State of Total Assessed Valuation of Taxable Property in the State of Utah, and Total Taxes Levied For All Purposes, for the Year 1927 Compiled for the Utah State Automobile Association by Haskins and Sells, Certified Public Accountants. Valuations Compared with Automobiles (times) Assessed Valuation CLASSES OF PROPERTY Taxes Taxes Compared with PerCent Automobiles to Total Levied (times) Valuation Per Cent to Total Taxes Levied $ 96.040,516.00 Lands within cities and towns Lands Agricultural, etc 104,432,117.00 and 143,892,792.00 Improvements Cities, towns,! agricultural Public Utilities, corporations and other property assessed 231,267,410.00 by State Board of Equalization : Livestock 25,478,949.00 Personal property other than livestock and automobiles 84,012,253.00 Automobiles 16,673,656.00 TOTAL : A $701,797,693.00 TAXES PAID ON AUTOMOBILES Total cars assessed 71,556 Taxes assessed $542,386.48 Average per car $7.58. Total cars registered 93,974 License Tax $672,403.35 Average per car $7.16. Total cars registered 93, 974 Gasoline tax $1,461,261.27 Average per car $15.55. The average gasoline tax per car is figured on the total number of cars registered during the entire year, although many of the cars shown in the total registration were not operated during the full NOTE: . year. If this is taken into consideration the average annual gas tax per car would be more than the $15.55 shown above. The whole story of our taxation is told in the two columns giving the percentage of total assessed valuation on different classes of property and the percentage of total taxes paid on the different classes of property. This brings out the fact that the Automobile represents only 2.38 percent of the total assessable property in the state, yet the automobile pays 11.99 percent of the total taxes of the state. The automobile therefore pays nearly six times as much taxes upon the assessed dollar as any other class of property in the state. MONEY MAD. MANAGER W. D. RISHEL of the Utah State Automobile Association says that a quiet campaign has been going on for some time to increase the taxes on the automobile. Presumably it is intended to increase the gasoline tax at the next meeting of the legislature. Certain interests are back of this movement. The officers of the Utah State Automobile Association have been aware of this activity for some time and have prepared figures showing ' that you are now paying nearly six times as much in taxes on your automobile as is paid by any other class of property on the per dollar valuation. ' The automobile assocaition is prepared to fight to the bitter end this unjust increase in taxes against your car and the cars of other motorists. In the foregoing compiled table the reader can see at a glance what a good thing the automobile has been for the politician. The people should rise up in a body and demand a big reduction on the automobile in taxes. Why not tax the electric light in your home, or your stove, or other essentials necessary in our daily life ? When will we get men in office who will look out for the welfare of the people ? Do not vote for men who can see no good in the public domain except to increase taxes. is that vague PERSONALITY something that can take a $5 loan from you and make you think you have received a favor. among our producers, and have a tendency to improve the quality of our products through emulation of the methods of the prize winners. That purpose continues to guide the directors of the undertaking. The 1928 Fair will not only show the progress that has been made, but will give a glimpse of the greater future development of 1928 UTAH STATE FAIR (Continued from page 8) Mendenhall, Mrs. Jennie E. Leslie, Mrs. D. W. Moffatt, George G. Smith, Jesse S. Richards and George Abbott, directors; Ernest S. Holmes, manager; Martha E. Gibbs, secretary. Governor George H. Dem in an appeal to the people of Utah, said: The Utah State Fair will this year celebrate its fiftieth blrtnday. It is the intention of the State Fair Board to magnify this anniversary with an exhibition that shall excel any of its predecessors and shall contain unique features appropriate to the occasion. It is expected that the quality and variety of exhibits and entertainment offered will amply justify an unprecedented attendance at the Fair by the people of Utah. This golden anniver-- , sary becomes all the more interesting and important because it will give the people an opportunity, through examination of the exhibits,, to visualize how far we have advanced during this our state. It is my earnest hope that all will take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the Fair to come to a VI ft better understanding of Utahs vast resources and possibilities. I am certain that a careful study of the exhibits will yield big dividends in education and in appreciation of our own state. THE WETTEST comer in the United States possessions, says the Indianapolis News, is the top of Mount Waialeale in Hawaii. But that was written before it leaked out that Philadelphia has 15,000 saloons. .,C1 cv last half century. The State Fair belongs to the peo-pi- e of Utah, and they will be proud to note the many improvements that have been made in the physical condi-tio- n of the buildings and grounds, the additions to exhibit space, the increase in the number of exhibitors, and the excellent character of the exhibits. The State Fair is essentially educational. It was originally created to give the people a cross section view of the products of the fields, mines and factories, from which the commonwealth derives its prosperity. Such exhibits stimulate a Aiendly rivalry ?V-- TDrnm . |