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Show COUNTY PAYS OVER 1 PERCENT TO COLLECT TAXES Utah county spent $37,711 to assess and collect $2,179,820 in taxes during 1946, fifth lowest percentage expenditure for this purpose among the state's 29 counties, according to the Utah Taxpayers association. Salt Lake, Weber, Cache and Morgan counties spent less than Utah from a percentage standpoint. stand-point. Percentage of assessing and collecting col-lecting expenditures for Utah county during 1946 relation to total taxes collected was 1.73, ac-cording ac-cording to the association's survey. sur-vey. The study showed, however, that Salt Lake county spent only 1.2 percent of its taxes for collecting col-lecting and assessing, Weber spent 1.45 percent, Cache was just under Utah county with 1.7 percent, and Morgan spent 1.51 percent. Highest percentage expenditure for collecting and assessing was Duchesne county, which spent $7797 to collect $180,903, or a percentage of 4.31. |