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Show TAX OF SUGAR FIRMSREDUGED State Board Shows Amount of Reduction Throughout the State. Amount of the reduction mtde in taxes paid by sugar companies aa a result of action of the state board of equalization last vear. i shown In a report made by T J. Midglcy. who becomes chief deputy "t.ite auditor Monday, and who has been traveling deputy In the office of Joseph Hlrle, state auditor. The total In tWo counties alone Cache and Boxelder amounted to a reduction of $9722. 70 In taxes paid by the sugar companies, or a reduction in the awoned valuation of around '1600.000 In these counties. Similar conditions also existed In L'tah county, but the amount in that caie has not as yet been OOOeitalnQO. Bufjar In the hands of the matin- jfacturera was assessed by suggestion of the state hoard as of Januars 1, 1919. at 17 h hundred pounds. In the hand of the fetall merchants h same yecr It whs assessed at 1 10 a hundred pou BubMQOentQT finding tha' 'r.icr handlaa in the three counties had br r isse.sd too low. the stale board (ordered nn Increase In each case. In , Boxelder the Increase ordered waa 25 1 per cent. Representation was made to th" i boards of equalization, state and county, coun-ty, that the $7 price that year was the actual cash value of the sugar, and that therefore on this commodity the 2 r. per cent Increase should not be nl- lowed. The county boards were reconvened re-convened the sugar Company officials 'made their pica and the assessed val-i val-i uatlon of the augur at the factories was set back to the $7 a hundred mark which was the figure at which It was 'assessed in other counties in the state. I However, the suKr in the hands of the merchants who did not appear be- f ore the county boards of equalization, continued to take the 26 per cent ad-ivance ad-ivance and was therefore asaened at ! $ 1 2 . 5 o a 'sack an of January 1, 1919. In Boxelder the reduction in taxa of the Amalgamated Sugar company was $1701 that year as a result of the reconvening of the county loard, und of the Utah-ldahO Sugrr company $-!-085. 7S. In Cache county by similar action, the Amalgamated Sugar saved 12660 In taaae, the l,ewlston Sugar company $2318.40 and the West Ca ha $967.00. Kor 1920. as of January 1, sugar at the fai .or ha .1 ajw-ased at $10 a suck, and at flS.f.o sack In the bandx of (he retail merchants. These were abOUl the prices actually prevailing at that time though some months sub-aetjuently sub-aetjuently the factories raised their prices to $1.1, seaboard hae. and still later one of the companies raised to $28.75 seaboard base. |