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Show WEBER COUNTY VALUES HE THAN DOUBLED C Assessor Indicates That There Need Be No Fear of Revenue Shortage. Special to The Tribune, OGDEN, April 29. Many of the fears that have beon expressed during the past year respecting a possible serious se-rious shortage in tax revenue because of the new law Trere largely set at rest today, as far as "Weber county is concerned, by the public announcement . of fignres on assessed valuation of property. prop-erty. The statement, as prepared by J. L. Robson, county assessor, shows that if the statu board of equalization maintains a record of increased valuation valua-tion equal to that of the local assessor. Weber county will derive almost as much money from taxatiou as it has in previous ears. The total assessed valuation of property prop-erty In Weber county, as baed on the new law, is $37,431,455 for 1916, according accord-ing to the assessor's statement. In 1915, under the old method of assessing property, prop-erty, the total for the county was $17.-71&.S07, $17.-71&.S07, or less than one-half the 3916 assessment, which is based on full valuation. valua-tion. Kstimating that the state board will observe, the same percentage of increased in-creased valuation for Weber county propertv such as railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, about $8,000,001) will be added to the county total, producing approximately $45,000,000 worth of property upon which taxes will be collected. col-lected. ' The "$S.O00;'0O0, however, is purely an estimate. On' a basis of a $20,000,000 assessed valuation last year the ratio of increased in-creased valuation for 1910 may therefore there-fore be expressed by two and one-fourth. Undpr the- new law. the lew in Ogden City i? limited to IS mills, or $L?0 tier $100 of assessed valuation. In Weber count v outside of Ogden City the limit is 12" mills or $1.20 per $100 worth of property. Last year the levy in the city -tvus 41.S" mills, and the ratio of decrease in the levy for 1916 is therefore there-fore expressed in the figures of approximately ap-proximately two and one-third. Balancing the decrease of two and one-third in levy against the two and one-fourth in assessed valuation, it will be seen that the amount to he derived from taxation will be almost equal to that of J915. The same principal will applv in the country territorv, except that' the 1915 levy of . 28.8 mills must be balanced against a limit of 12 mills for 1916. producing a rational decrease of about two and one-half and thereby decreasing the revenue for the territory terri-tory outside of the city. Assessor Robson advises that property owners will be able to arrive at an immediate im-mediate romparison of the amount of taxes pa v able in 1 91b' by ntnlti plying the assessed valuation of their property, as indicated in notices seen to be sent out, bv the 1910 levy. In the case of property iu Ogden City the levy of IS mills must be used and in the conntrv districts the lew of 12 mills. The following fol-lowing is the assessor 's comparative statement of assessed propertv valuations valua-tions in Weber count v for . the vears 1915 and 1916: lata. 1016. iRrnl estate Garden filv 5 S12.453.370 Real estate country coun-try districts 2..T.o:.7lO 5.Wr..340 Im ;Trv clients Ogden Og-den City 5.175.140 $,163,350 Improvement?, conntrv conn-trv districts 7C-P.575 1.459.4('0 Personal property Osrden City 7.969.635 Personal proprt v country districts.. 911.?fl5 1.54.30 Total valuation Ojr- Uen City 13.5J5.124 28.f.9C.355 Total al-iaTlon country districts.. 4.17H.PS" lP Grand total ?17.71S.S7 $:7.4J.455 |