Show UTAH PREPARES TO REPAY TAX Inheritance Levies Totaling Totaling Totaling Total Total- ing Will Be Returned State officials Wednesday prepared to repay in jn inheritance taxes collected illegally Of this amount will be paid to the estate of Michael Winburn of New York To this will be added about 1200 interest The remainder of thc the will be paid to 11 estates upon order of df f the courts L. L A. A Miner assistant attorney general general general gen gen- eral in charge of inheritance tax collections collections collections col col- notified the state board of examiners that 2000 would be needed needed needed need need- ed to pay interest and court costs This will vill call for a deficit appropriation tion which is provided for lor in a statute dealing with repayments Attorney General George Ceorge said Wednesday that the decision decisions of Federal Judge Tillman D. D Johnson in inthe inthe inthe the Winburn case would be taken as final and no further effort would be made by the state to collect inheritance inheritance inheritance tance taxes on Utah securities from nonresidents RULING ANTICIPATED Early in the year the decision of the United States supreme court settled settled set set- tied the matter of collecting on the estates of nonresidents Mr Parker said The ruling made by Judge Continued on n Paste Fifteen UTAH PREPARES TO REPAY TAX Page rUt Nine Johnson was merely in keeping with wih the edict of oC the highest court curt in the land Justice George Gcorge Sutherland in writing the supreme court opinion denying to Maine the right to collect on securities held by nonresidents made it i perfectly clear cear that the practice practice practice tice of oC making makin these collections must stop Judge Johnsons Johnson's ruling was an an- State Treasurer A. A Edsel Christensen Christen Christen- Sell sen reports that he has followed the thc Utah statutes which say that money moncy paid un under er protest must be kept in intact intact intact in- in tact until the thc protest is settled Hence he can turn over the money to the Winburn Winbur estate as soon as the board of examiners provides the in interest interest in- in terest terest COLLECTS Utah has collected about from nonresidents since July 1 but only the was paid under protest protest Those who did not pay under under under un un- un- un der protest have no recourse for re repayment repayment repayment re- re payment Mr Miner said The protest pro protest protest test period is only for six months and andall andall all al money paid into the state treasury prior to six months ago is Utah mone money and cannot be repaid Mr Miner said He estimates that altogether Utah has collected about from nonresidents nonresident In recent years cars the collections have averaged about a year |