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Show loauis Tan MttSces jileaeHy For Chq all By ROSELYN KIRK proximately 46,000 tax -jswill be mailed out by . i County Treasurer's ton Oct. 26, an increase iboui 2,000 over the -tier of notices last year, '.nting to R0Dert Tel'ori. .,5 County Treasurer. illt. TELFORD said that -assessed evaluation of the ire has also risen this year aiS.l,525 as compared to evaluation in 1976 of L. SI.OOO. rier Davis County -dents receive their tax res about Oct. 28, they . have slightly over one -in. until Nov. 30, to pay . 3 ii the treasurer's office. Mr. Telford said, iidents can mail their ..ment to the treasurer's :eor to their bank. In s) cases the taxes are paid finance companies who ' mortgages on the houses. IHfO percent delinquent .fee is assessed on any s not paid by 12 noon on 30. Mr. Telford said that ..is County has "an -alary collection rate. 1 98 percent of the taxes I ipaidontime." Cash income from taxes will net Davis County $17,500,000, an increase of almost al-most $2 million over the $15,616,000 that the county received in 1976. Mr. Telford said that about 62 percent of the tax monies go to the Davis County School district for the financing of school programs. The remainder of the property tax finances county and city governments. TAXES ARE up approximately ten percent in most areas of Davis County, Mr. Telford said. The school district increase of 4.16 was accounted for mainly by a two mill county increase, with the additional 2.16 mills being required by the state. Davis County assessed a 2.2 mill levy increase, mostly for flood control. West Point increased the mill levy more than any other city with a 7.5 mill levy increase. Other city mill levy increases follow: Kaysville, 1.5; Fruit Heights, .25; East Layton, 3.02; Cen-terville, Cen-terville, 1; and Bountiful, 1.5. OTHER AREAS in which property taxes have been increased are the Davis County Mosquito Abatement District, with .14 mill levy increase. In Centerville, West Bountiful and Farmington property taxes have been increased to pay off indebtedness indebted-ness to Weber Basin Water Conservancy District. Pauline McBride, Chief Deputy in the County Treasurer's office, said that an increase of one mill in Farmington Irrigation District Dis-trict and a .50 increase for the West Point Cemetery has increased the levy in those cities. NINE persons will be added to the staff in the county treasurer's office to take care of the influx of work necessitated necessi-tated by the collection of taxes in November and the posting of the taxes in December. During the rest of the year Mr. Telford and Mrs. McBride are the only staff members in the office. During the rest of the year Mr. Telford and Mrs. McBride are the only staff members in the office. Next year tax notices will be processed through the computer, which is now being programmed to send out the evaluation and tax notices for next year. |