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Show 8 Pending more information Oil reported flowing at old well City again delays tax on phone suppliers City commissioners last week delayed for the second time imposing a revenue tax on telephone equipment companies that compete with public utilities after deputy city attorney Walter R. Miller reported that Mountain Bell has not supplied information on the taxs potential impact. The original one month delay was granted in order to allow input from the utility and private companies on what it would cost the city if a tax on telephone equipment was eliminated, (thereby exempting the private companies from the tax). Kenneth R. Madsen, general attorney for Mountain Bell, told the Enterprise last week the city already had all the information it needed. Madsen surmised some con- - have resulted Bell not submithad because ted formal answers to the city's queries, although they had been informally supplied. According to Madsen, the city would lose about $1 million in taxes collected from Bell customers if the definifusion may tion of "local exchange were changed to service exclude telephone equipment. Traditionally, both locally and nationally, the definition has included both access lines and equipment as a basis for taxation. Madsen said the company was unwilling to change the definition locally without contacting other Bell affiliates A throughout the country. change here might cause pressure for similar changes elsewhere, he claims. tain Bell's business both be thus exempted, keeping things equal. The city agreed to consider the idea pending receipt of information. Miller told commission- ers the private companies had reported the city would lose only $16,000 a year by exempting them. Madsen explained Ma Bell could support either imposition on both the utility or the private companies or no tax on equipment sales of both. Private companies had paid the tax imposed on Bell alone under protest, claiming it was illegal in not being assessed to everyone in the same business, Madsen asserted. As a result, Bell could be sued by consumers for a return of the extra money paid. Keeping things equal The city earlier this year imposed a two percent franchise tax and six percent revenue tax on all local utilities. Imposing it on JDeef Today Palatable Tomorrow Smoked ham, salami, sausage, steaks, roasts, chops and deerburger. Also custom meet cutting, smoking and curing of all meats game, beef and pork. If you miss your deer, fill your freezer with 295-758- 5 Bob Kellcrsbcrgcr Custom Meats private telephone equipment companies was an apparent effort to equalize matters. But the private companies suggested they and the equipment portion of 292-757- 1 Moun- - A flow of oil at about 20 barrels an hour is credited to American Quasar Petroleums UPRR well, a mile west of the Pineview field, according to Carlton Stowe, No. 5-- 1 minerals specialist, Utah Department of Natural resources, Geological and Mineral Survey. Stowe said the well was reported making the oil from the Twin Creek formation while operations were conducted during early tests. American Quasar declined comment on the report. Stowe says the well was originally drilled and abandoned in 1972 by the Occidental Petroleum Company to a total depth of 10,527 feet. The Twin Creek formation was encountered at 8,736 feet and the Nugget formation at test of the Nugget formation yielded mud and slightly gas cut No tests were water. 10,208 feet. Making things difficult Irwin Arnovitz, an attorney representing the North American Telephone Association, told commissioners the tax should not be imposed because it was discriminatory. He explained the private companies, which sell private branch exchange switchboards and key telephone systems, would pay more because they sell the equipment outright while the utility maintains ownership. Arnovitz later told the Enterprise he thought the utility may favor the tax in order to create a nuisance for their private competitors. Madsen, however, said Bell was not interested in making things difficult for the private companies. 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