Show tah Takes Steps To Collect Back Inheritance Taxes County Attorneys Will WilK Be Asked to Make Examina Examinations Examinations na nations ions for State Utah took look steps Thursday to collect hundreds of thousandS thousand of dollars in delinquent inheritance ance taxes S. S D. D Huffaker deputy attorney general was preparing letters to lo attorneys at- at tornes torne's of 22 Utah counties calling for investigation of estates as a preliminary preliminary preliminary pre pre- move to making demands for payment of taxes from at least estates Some of or the estates on which taxes are arc still due Mr Huffaker said date back to 1908 with wilh the larg largest t value being Dozens are valued at atmore atmore atmore more than many in in the neighborhood neIghborhood neighborhood neigh neIgh- of and scores between between be- be tween OOOO and The attorney warned that thai unless the thet t taxes are paid to the state immediately immediate immediate- ly legal action will be taken for collection collection collection col col- lection and 8 per cent interest charges will be added to all taxes due The Utah tax exempts estates of or orless orless less but imposes a 1 3 per cent levy for forthe forthe forthe the first o of an estate and 5 per cent for all additional ASKS INVESTIGATION In his letter to the county attorneys Mr Huffaker notified them to investigate investigate investigate gate each of the estates in his count county and requests a report of Jf the present status names of executors and aDd value when probated In man many v Instances he said estates estates es cs tates have been ente entered ed for probate but bul never closed dosed for the sole purpose of attempting to keep the state from collecting inheritance taxes He pointed out that for an estate valued at al the t tax lax x would amount to and that thai IDt rest at al 8 per cent for 12 years the period of oC delinquency would more than double the amount of the tax lax taxi bringing a profitable revenue to the state stale ESTATES LISTED Preliminary investigation has re revealed re- re according ding to Mr Huffaker that there are 74 estates in Salt Lake county on which taxes have not been paid 24 in m Weber county 31 in Utah county 20 in C Cache che county and 13 in Box Elder county in addition to lo smaller number numbers in m other sections of the state Records show how there are only seven counties in which there are no taxable estates The attorney called attention to the fact that the federal government also would profit b by the states state's action as asserting asserting as- as that if tate state inheritance taxes have not been paid there IS is a likelihood likelihood hood the federal taxes also are delin delin- quent I |