Show 6 UTAH GROUPS J PLAN TAX MOVE Organizations Join in Outlining ing 1 11 1 Point ll-Point Legislative Legis Program Aiming its guns at property properly tax lax i in particular six Utah organization numbering thousands of or members Sa Saturday Sat Sat- formed armed a coalition move to press pres for tor adoption of an 11 ll I J program Joseph A J Anderson chairman of the he coalition committee and prell dent of the Utah Ulah State Farm Bureau federation one ot at the six organize ions announced the program which which- I is a subject to modification or exten exten- x ion sion sion after a series of meetings The other are the Utah State Federation of oC Labor Utah Tax Reform league Utah Education It association Consumers' Consumers Welfare league cague and the Railroad Brotherhoods Brotherhoods' Brotherhoods Brotherhoods' Brother- Brother hoods hoods' big four which includes the BrotherhOOd of Railroad Trainmen n 1 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi Engi- Order of Railway Conductors 1 I and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Burdensome Load It Is the uniform opinion of ot the the j coalition that the tangible pro property tax in Utah has grown burdensome j unjust an and d discriminatory Mr And And- Anti j 1 j erson said 1 The program J 1 I. Declares for raising revenue re for lor forthe J the he slate state general state district school 1 j state talc hl high h school and state school j t I equalization funds from a source i iother Iother other than the tte property tax and for 4 elimination of state levies on prop erty for these purposes at the earliest possible date 2 2 Urges lower r exemptions elimination nation of oC offsets and higher rates for i income tax the revenue to reduce f the he general property tax 3 3 Supports constitutional and andst st statutory amendments to inaugurate Inaugural a gross sales tax on a selective list of I services and commodities to reduce educe the he property tax 4 4 Supports a material raise brates in b rates Tates of ot the inheritance tax A Mine lIne Tax Change y 5 a Favors modification of mine A tax ax laws to tax land on its current nt assessed assessed as- as q value in the same manner as other land b Favors taxing mine deposits deposit as ashey the they hey arc are extracted in a manner simlar sim- sim t tar lar ar to the Minne Minnesota ola system 6 6 a Favors enactment of ot constitutional constitutional con con- and statutory provi provisions to o permit proper classification of tangible property according to Income In IncOme come derived in iii order to adjust more fairly the burden among homes farms banks mines utilities 5 and ther c property properly b Insists that income be reco as the dominant factor in d determining dc- dc the assessed valuation of t farm arm property and that inhabited homes be separately classified to per per- mit mil reasonable exemptions exemption and lower assessments 7 7 Believes the exemption of ot securIties se securities se sc from the Income tax affords opportunities to escape proper taxation taxation taxa- taxa v tion lion and urges every effort to end possibilities of ot escaping just taxation taxa- taxa tion ion 5 Liberal Policy 8 Asks adoption of a liberal policy regulating motor vehicles vehicle seeking necessary social and economic regulation regula regulation tion and avoiding regulation seeking elimination or curtailment of truckIng trucking truck truck- Ing ng or other competitive advantages advantages- 9 Asks that at any time he sale of or liquor is legalized In Utah that that- profits shall not go to private lad lad- or corporations but that sale shall shan be under supervision of the state slate and that revenue shall be wed used to o reduce the property tax 10 Recommends that municipal municipalities counties and school districts cut expenditures by consolidations w which ich i should not be for purely political or selfish purposes j S 11 Pledges the coalition to work i ifor for the foregoing legislation by electing electing electing elect- elect i j ing candidates who will support it and I Iby by introducing the program Into the legislature |