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Show Davis Taxpayers Pay $91,237,000 In Federal Taxes Taxpayers in Davis County paid $91,237,000 in federal income in-come taxes for the 1979 tax year, according to an analysis prepared by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. orga-nization. This sum averages $1 ,804 for each return filed for the year. ACCORDING TO the study, Davis County taxpayers tax-payers filed 50,579 federal returns re-turns for 1979 and reported gross income totaling $808,679,000. Thus, gross income in-come per return averaged $ 1 5 ,988 for that year, and compares com-pares with a statewide average of $15,032 per return. Inflation and cost-of-living adjustments are pushing taxpayers tax-payers into higher income brackets. In 1976, approximately approxi-mately 83 percent of all returns filed by Utahns reported gross incomes of $20,000 or less, with only 17 percent showing incomes of more than $20,000. By 1979, the percent of returns with incomes of $20,000 or less had declined to 71.5 percent and the percentage with incomes in-comes above $20,000 had risen to 28.5 percent. A TOTAL OF 516,242 Utahns filed federal income tax returns for 1979 and these filers reported $7,760,189,037 in adjusted gross income. Thus the typical return reported an average income of $15,032. This average gross income ranged from a high of $17,079 in Carbon County to a low of $10,082 in Garfield County. Among the 138 communities examined in the survey, the average income varied from $20,493 in Stansbury Park to $9,439 at Fort Duchesne. Foundation analysts caution that, these averages are not an accurate indicator of family income in-come because they include a large number of students and other individuals who work in part-time and temporary jobs. Often, these individuals are only nominally attached to the labor force and file a separate tax return in order to obtain a refund for taxes withheld. NEARLY 86 percent of the total adjusted gross income reported re-ported in Utah for 1979 was derived from wages and salaries, salar-ies, 4.8 percent came from dividends, di-vidends, 3.8 percent from interest in-terest payments, 3.0 percent from pensions and annuities, with the balance (approximately (approxi-mately 2.5 percent) obtained from a variety of other sources. Altogether, Utahns paid $934.8 million in federal income in-come taxes, according to this analysis of 1979 tax returns. Approximately $564.1 million, or more than 60 percent of this total, was paid by families and individuals earning more than $25,000 for the year. Only $47.4 million, or 5 percent of the total, was paid by taxpayers tax-payers in Utah with incomes of $10,000 or less. OVERALL, FEDERAL taxes averaged 12.0 percent of adjusted gross income. The percentage varied, however, from 1 .5 percent at the lowest income bracket to 36.6 percent for those earning more than $100,000 per year. |