Show TAXATION N CHANGES CHANG rR PROPOSED r SO Spring and Fall Payments Payments Payments Pay Pay- ments Contemplated in Movement Officials Favor New Scheme To make spring and fall payments payments payments pay pay- ments of taxes instead of paying them all an in a lump close to Christmas this Christmas this is an innovation that will no doubt be provided for by the coming legislature It is intended to divide the taxes Into semiannual payments giving the taxpayer the right to pay half in the spring and half halfin halfin in the fall Or if said taxpayer is flush in the spring he may pay it all at once and have done with it The Idea has been revived by A. A B. B who is Interesting a a. number number number num num- ber of ot business men Two years year ago agoo 1 the proposition came up In the legislature legisla leg f f ture tune but the law was not passed The Th business men of ot Salt Lake who have been interviewed declare It would be a splendid Idea for the reason that when the payment Is made In full in inthe inthe the fall there Is very little money left for trading When you put In the winters winter's supply of ot coal and potatoes and clothing and then pay the taxes there Is la hardly any Christmas money left Plan Meets Favor This fact has come home homo forcibly to the merchants In other states the split payment payment payment pay pay- ment of taxes is In force the public publio officials are much pleased the taxpayers ers are accommodated and business businessmen businessmen businessmen men men d dp do not suffer It is figured that it itIs itIs itIs Is much easier to pay taxes twice a than make it all In one payment Another advantage of the dual payments payments payments pay pay- ments is pointed out by County Treasurer Treasurer Treasurer Treas Treas- Raymond C. C Naylor It would be much more convenient for the taxpaying public to pay twice a a. year said Mr Naylor And It would help the city and county government go materially The expense of collecting twice would of ot course be greater but butin butin butin in the main this would be bo offset by h bythe the elimination of ot the present system of ot paying tho the banks 5 6 per cent Interest for tor carrying our warrants through tho the ta tax collecting period The banks carry I Ia Ia a huge pile of these warrants and when the money comes in we take them up paying 5 per cent for the ac ac- ac County Commissioner r Lafayette Hanchett favors the new system aa Y does City Auditor E. E A A. A Bock Bill Under Way A bill will be drawn and presented In the early days of the coming session of the legislature to bring about this reform Meantime Mr Carstensen and other business businessmen men are gathering statistics and stirring up sentiment In its favor The T Direct Legislation league is Interested in interested interested In- In In the fact that in San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco the supervisors have changed the number of ot signatures required on Initiative ins Ini petitions to place propositions on the ballot Because of the abuses of ot the initiative initiative initia initia- tive and referendum the supervisors have made tho number of ot signatures required twice what it was formerly If It my recollection serves me right it was necessary to obtain 12 per cent of ot the voters on petitions before a measure measure measure meas meas- ure could go on the ballot Initiative Proposed The new rule will w mage agitators and cranks hesitate before they start out to get g-et one out of every four voters to sign up For any legitimate measure measure measure meas meas- ure in which all the people are Interested Interested interested Inter Inter- ested It wont won't be hard to get signers And it may not even be necessary to refer to the ballot at all The proposed law bringing the Initiative initiative initiative Initia initia- tive and referendum to Utah will be presented early earb It is a part pact of the Continued on page 6 TAXATION CHANGES CHANGES' Continued from from- page pase 1 program to be adopted at Fridays Friday's m meeting eting of the Democratic steering committee Democratic l leaders aders today gave it out as final that at they will not support a abill abill abill bill for presidential primaries in Utah They contend the presidential preferential preferential prefer prefer- primary in other states has been beena a complete failure It needed only the primary of last spring to prove it At that time state after state sent delegations delegations delegations to the Republican national convention convention convention con con- uninstructed It is rather difficult to imagine inthe in inthe inthe the spring who will be the best candidate candi- candi can candi candidate i. i date the coming fall and any state will hesitate to indorse a candidate whose choice may be against the policy of the party in the nation |