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Show SIT LlRSls ITIEREli City and County pr0f Has Highest Valuatif of Any in State. Sixty Per Cent of ines Assessment I Utah Also Carried. Study of Utah taxation data obtained and comparison wm, data reveal some Interesting garding valuations since ule. ' sessment" program became otv- Although it was assorted v property was to be assessed at the figures reveal that, with tJi' tion of Salt Lake City, no real eV Utah haa been assessed at more ', per cent of ita actual value. ues in the comparison were arr by taking the actual consldmr transfers of real estate in the localities. The assessed valuatj,!"' taken from the assessment roll, counties.. In the table below the ffrsi contains the figures obtained bv commission before the "full ,;' was effective. The .second coVuv talus figures' for the year 19i; i instances the figures represent tl centage of actual value shown assessed valuations. Data Compared. Tax , ' cominif. .. Blon's Counties. figures ( Beaver , Cache '. Carbon 4 ; limery h Garfield '35 Grand is Juab' 26 Millard i . ; . '"3 Piute San Juan -.....'. 3S Sanpete .... ; ' 21 Sevier ' 21 Salt Lake 26 Salt Lake City 37 UUh : Wasatch 33 Washington 44 Real estate was taken ab the k-comparison, k-comparison, for -the reason that tl. 11c records furnish , the neceson with respect to this class of prop: is a reasonable presumption U,t same conditions apply to other da-property: da-property: The published report of the slate of equalization for. the year, 19i0 1 some additional and interesting h connection with the subject of ta1 It shows that Salt Lake couniv, . carries the highest real estate va:. also bears 60 per cent of the tola! assessment of the state and mor 43 per cent of the total assessed va of all property in tjie state. Taxes Disproportionate. The tax burden ' on- tllis county course, disproportionately heavy, V valuations are kept too low In otiitr 1 ties, a fact which haa not e?caf;' notice of Salt Lake county taxr who view with what tliey feal to t tlfiable indignation persistent aw to add further to Salt Lake countf: . burden. It Is possible that, because th r paid taxes for , two years on a st ratio than previously, there was 1 position to keep other valuation!: Now that the mine taxes have bet vanced there no longer exists any ) cation for undervaluation in the cc other than "Salt Lake, and It Is. stood that sustained efforts will be 1 to have "full valuation" establish: fact instead of a fiction In man lions of the state. |