Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-03 | Page 9 | Income Tax Body Payroll $4500 Month

INCOME TAX BODY PAYROll MONTH Between 30 and 35 Persons to Be Employed in New Organization The payroll of the income tax department department de de- de- de of the state tax commission commis- commis sion lon will be approximately a month exclusive of the salary of the he commissioner who will have di direct direct dJ- dJ charge of the work the tax commission commission com corn mission estimates Between 30 and 35 persons will wUl be employed In this department with ten en additional for two months each year beginning about February 15 II The wage scale or the actual setup set set- up has not yet been determined but butIn butin in the course of a few days das the com corn mission will announce the makeup makeup makeup make make- up of the new organization SIX SECTIONS The income tax department will have the following sections Accounting Accounting Accounting Ac Ac- counting and bookkeeping auditing stenographic delinquency statistical cal and mailing These sections wlLie willbe willbe will wlL be ie mobile to a certain extent and help heh can be drawn from one section to o aid another during peak periods The salary tary schedule has not been definitely made but members of the tax commission state that the scale will not exceed the average of that paid pad aid by stat states and municipalities and will probably be lower than this mark I The average reported to be paid for I accountants and chief accountants Is s from to per month Bookkeepers Bookkeepers Book- Book i keepers get from to per month Chief auditors receive from to per month others from to and junior auditors get from rom to The stenographers ers rs get from 75 to a month VOTED The state tax commission was given iven an appropriation of for the he biennIum beginning J July ly I 1 This is s the amount the commission asked for tor or although it was known at the theme time me that it would be insufficient Continued on or Pate Page re Thirteen INCOME ME TAX B BODY BODY- nY PAYROLL PAYROLLS S 4 nO M NTH Continued from rom Page Pago Nine When the commission got farther along on Its new work It estimated that it would need more to carry on The board of examiners did allow the deficit but hut suggested suggest suggest- ed cd that the commission carry along as far faras as it could and by that time tune the the- commission would have enough experience to make a more definite estimate on what It would need Up to date the tax commission has spen spent of this and consumed consumed consumed con con- all aU but 1147 cents of or the which was transferred to it from the old board of equalization appropriation A good bit of this money went to the compilation of a list of taxpayers and to making and filing WIng stencils of ot these and for equipment There were 38 extra persons hired at the peak to do this work Fifteen of these have been dropped from the payroll now that the list Is practically practical practical- ly complete ENTERS NEW FIELD Not all aU of the expended has gone toward the income tax work however The commission has conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted the work of the old board of e equalization and has gone Into the new field of attempting to set up a system which will Insure a more equitable assessment of property throughout the state Two commissioners commissioners commis commis- and one other have devoted most mt of their time for months on this work and still have much to do before the equalizing of or assessments can go very far tar The old board of equalization conSisted consisted con con- d of three members who got a year a secretary and three stenographers ste ste- ste- ste The new tax commission commis commis- sion don has 1135 four members who receive a ye year r and seven sc regular em em- In addition to the income tax set The special session of the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture ure cost It cost another to submit the amendments to o the people and about another Mother will wIn be spent In hi remodeling the he to make room for the tax commission