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Show PLANS TO CONDUCT . FIGHT ON HE TAX: '1 Salt Lake Copper Company Com-pany Protests Legality of Payment to State. : ' liCgal resistance to the 3 per cent state tax on net mine proceeds Is to be made by the Salt Lriike Copper company, as announced an-nounced in a letter received yesterday by Daniel O. Larson, state treasurer, from K. B. Corbet, manager of the corporation. corpora-tion. Incidentally a similar disposition on the part of the Carbon Fuel company is disclosed dis-closed in action taken by that company yesterday through a messenger from the corporation's offices to the snte treas-' treas-' urer, together with the latter's refusal of a proposed tender. The messenger from the fuel company offered to Mr. Iarson 31 In payment of t he occupation and privilege tn x, Mr. Larson refused to accept it because It was not accompanied by $43S2.70, assessed by the state board of equalization as the company's 3 per cent net proceeds tax. the treasurer informing the messenger that he could not -accept anything but th full amount of the assessment, which could be paid under protest if desired. Following is a copy of the letter received re-ceived by Mr. Larson from Mr, Corbet, of the Salt Iako Copper company: "We herewith hand you $1 in currency and a certified check on the First National Na-tional bank fori the 'sum of $142S.96, in payjnent of the occupation and privilege tax of $1 and 3 per cent on net proceeds of $47,r3 for1917, amounting to a total of ?1 4-9.!iti, as determined by the state board of equalization and assessed as-sessed against the undersigned. "Hut. you are hereby notified that the undersigned claims that said tax of 3 per "cent on net proceeds, amounting to fL'4'JS.'jfi is illegal; thai the statute under which the same is assessed is unconstitutional unconstitu-tional and void, and Ihis payment is marie under, protest and the undersigned will institute' suit against you to recover the same." |