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Show Utah Foundation Report Describes Tsdng System in State of Utah Foundation reported today lhlt 11 1 alms paid a total of more .' , j;;:n million in IVdcral, slate ' loi-al taxes and toes durimv ,,w fiscal year ended Juno 150, 1 !;;!. represents an iworago tax h,'dcn of S-'"- llU' 'Vt'i-y '"an, wo-,' wo-,' ,ul ehild in the State. The- "uring llJ'year M08,?"'1 one dollar r Mine than "1 ".sr um- "- 1. situation was almost clirectlv erased Federal taxes In-or In-or oo, tB rC rapidly than state i xos In recent years the mat btate and local impositions are a significant part of the tot Between 1940 and 1953, total state nndlocni taxes have about Irebled t rfcefn' ""tionwide study reveaN ed that Utah had the sixth highest combined state and local taxbur-otn taxbur-otn in the nation. Utah's total state and local tax burden in cm f t0 total income wLUnd to be higher than that of any other western state. y According to the Utah Foundation Founda-tion researchers, Utah levies every cfathlwnf tax imposed in a"y of the Western States with the exception ex-ception of gambling taxes. Most of m S?n.Xe VVere imPosed during the 19o0 s. Prior to that time, state and local governments in Utah relied re-lied almost exclusively on the general gen-eral property tax for their revenue |