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Show Chamber Tax Group Continues Vork On Equalization When Springville home-owners receive their tax valuation notices next month, if they feel that they are too high, they should make a protest to the county commis- 1 sioners on the dates specified. This advise was given by Howard How-ard Maycock, president of the Springville Chamber of Commerce and chairman of a Utah county committee appointed to investigate investi-gate the unfairness of the recent property re-valuation by the state tax commission, after he attended a meeting of the county committee in Provo Tuesday evening. The committee was told that it is too late now to do anything about the problem facing property-owners property-owners as the re-valuation has gone into effect and the notices are in the hands of the county treasurer with instructions to have them mailed by May pi. However, the county commissioners commis-sioners meet as a board of equalization equali-zation on dates specified on the tax valuation notices the latter part of May, and it is then that any complaints should be registered. register-ed. It is believed by the committee that at least 75 percent of the home and other improvements in this vicinity will have taxes raised as result of the re-valuation. When a protest is registered with the county commissioners a member of the Utah tax commission, commis-sion, with a , representative from the county assessors office will meet with the property owner and try to arrive at a fair valuation. In the meantime, the Utah county coun-ty committee, headed by Mr. May-cock, May-cock, will continue to fight for the rights of . Utah county property owners having already registered their complaint that the recent revaluation re-valuation in this county was discriminatory dis-criminatory for the following reasons: rea-sons: First, the manual used for the re-valuation is out-dated, and a new one will be in use by May 1. Also the state tax commission employed em-ployed unqualified and inexperienced inexperien-ced men to make the re-valuation as evidenced in the fact that of the 23 employed in the work, only five remain. Further, they protest the fact that about 75 percent of the homes were placed in a higher bracket as result of the re-valuation. Also in making the re-valuation, the location of the home was not taken into consideration, an item which is also protested by the tax study group. They further point to the unfairness un-fairness of the re-valuation in noting not-ing that Salt Lake county had not been re-valuated since 1933, yet when the re-valuation program was begun, Utah county, which was just re-valued in 1947, was revalued re-valued again. This, the committee protests stating that a tax raising program so drastic should be placed plac-ed in all counties of the state at the same time and not in certain areas. At the meeting in Provo Tuesday Tues-day evening, representatives were present from practically every city in the county from Lehi on the north to Payson on the south. The tax problem was brought to the attention of the Springvillo Chamber of Commerce some months ago and Mr. Maycock and his committee which .includes W. W. Clyde and F. C. Packard from this city have been working on it several months. |