| Show State S t a t e Tax Ta T x Measures res Me a s tx r e s i Strike S t r i ft i k V Vs s e Snag S n a g House Refuses To Change Vote Against Offset 0 f Split Between Chambers May Kill Income and Corporation Franchise Levy Acts Must Go to Conference l f S Th The house house Wednesday passed the Bosone bill taxing S' S natural gas 4 cents per 1000 cubic feet It al also o refused r r to recede from froni its amendments to the corporation franchise franchise fran Iran chise tax bill throwing the measure into conference The he senate passed the underground water bill after alter defeating an amendment purported to protect small culinary cull culi nary users of southern Salt Lake county A senate house-senate split that easily could cause death ol of both the individual income tax and corporation franchise tax bills loomed Wednesday in the state legislature after drastic amending of both measures by the house After striking a 50 property tax offset late Tuesday af afternoon ter oon the house Wednesday morning passed senate bill bil I 88 th the individual Income tax act that would increase pres- pres ent enl rates and lower existing tons lions The vote was 47 to 5 5 eight mem memo b hers absent and not voting Tuesday afternoon the house passed the corporation franchise tax bill bUl deleting de dc leHne the 20 per cent property t ta tax UI offset included by the sen senate te d to Recede s a a result of the striking of or th the thc chet- chet in the c corporation bin bill included ed cd by the senate after considerable debate the senate Wednesday day mornIng mornIng morn Ing refused to concur in the amendments amendments amend ments when it received the tha bill bilI President Herbert B. B Maw D. D SlIt Salt Lake formally asked aked the house to recede recede re reo cede from the amendments but th the house refusal was as a foregone conchi lion cion If it refuses a conference commit commil tee must be appointed If Jf it fails t to agree gree a second committee will b be named and if 11 it fails the bill will wil automatically die In view of senate refusal to concur concu concur In amendments to the corporation tax bill bilt UI like e refusal to accept the house changes in the individual income tax bill was considered certain Amendment Loses Lost Before Belore passing pasing senate bill 88 the house defeated an 0 amendment patterned pat pat- after DUer the federal law la lato to prevent prevent pre vent evasion b by charging of stock transaction lo losses es The rest of the house session In Inthe Inthe inthe the morning was consumed with spirited d debate bate on house bill 16 by Madame Representative e Reva eva B Beck k Continued on Pare Pace Two Tuo i TAX FAx MEASURES I RUN INTO SNAG 1 1 Continued from frost rare race One Ont B Bosone sone D D. Salt SaIl Lake to ta tax natural nat I ural and artificial gas cas' 4 cents per pcr 1000 cubic feet et B Before fore debate the house adopted adapted a committee report that struck the he hc reference to artificial gas Jas making the he levy apply only to natural gas fill Dill Defended This bill strikes a fair balance between between be tween gas and coal companies Mrs Bosone said Laid Since 1930 when natural nat ura ural ut-al gas came in les tons of ot coal have e been used in Utah Yet the theY coal companies pa pay taxes and employ employ em ploy more men The Thc gas Cas companies pay nothing to the state on their prod Representative Dexter Farr D. D Weber al defended also the bill biU and cited figures to show use of ot coal Is being replaced by gas Representative L Lyle le B. B Nicholes D. D Salt Lake urged no hasty Ac Action tion on the bill pointing out bills are arc in th the senate to tax heating and lighting Utilities I cant can't see why we single out one Industry he said ld He made a motion mo motion mo mo- tion to table the bill pending study stud of ot bills in the senate but it lost Representative Warwick C. C Lamoreaux Lam Lam- D. D Salt Lake said farm fann property is assessed at 40 to per percent percent percent cent of its value while the Utah Gas and Coke company according to a committee of ot nine report is assessed ct It 13 per cent of its itc fixed capital New Issue Rises Gas companies occupy the most S favorable position of an any Utah utility util S it ity ity he said I wI had intended to introduce in S a bill for a kilowatt hour tax on electric power until I of the inequality between gas and power powel companies Thereafter I determined de S to lend efforts to equalization S utilities before tak talc tion among the taking S in ing further steps Representative W. W WJ J. J Maw Ma D. D Weber We her ber spoke briefly for the bill and his motion to recess to 2 p m. m car car- ned ried Following the gas Jas tax bil b bil on the house calendar was another controversial controversial con measure an act ad changing provisions of the workmen's compensation compensation S la law S The senate Wednesday morning I passed the house howe bill permitting cities buy water and hold it for a longer bagel time time than than now allowed before putting putI put ting it to beneficial use The billis billis bill billis I is one to speed construction of th the Deer Utah creek lake project Senator J. J Francis Fowles D. D Weber We ber chairman of the trade regula committee said he and members would confer conter during the day clay on house bill bUl 41 the state store liquor bill that passed the house with sales by single drinks forbidden The senate made a special order of or business in the afternoon S. S Bs B.'s and 96 respectively ely the underground cz water control ol measure and the bill providing unequal ass assessments against stock in irrigation and canal anal companies and water users' users Project Act Passed Most of the senates senate's morning mornin session ses Zion ion was spent in debate on a pill bill by Senator Hugh HuSh M. M Woodward D. D Utah providing that sales tax receipt re rc- rc in ex excess e of annually be used to make snake up deficits in the nate district school and school equal funds One objection voiced b by Senator Paul H. H Ray D. D Salt Lake was that property tax delinquencies would be encouraged ed by knowledge schools could obtain sales tax mon money Debate was to be resumed after the special order of business on the two water v bills in the afternoon The bond refunding bill which will permit enactment of a larger state budget without demanding more rev re was to be signed ned Wednesday by the senate president and to go Governor Gov Gov- Henry H H. Blood for the signa ture that will make it immediately effective The senate late bate Tuesday afternoon P passed the metropolitan water district act permitting municipalities to par in the Deer Utah creek lake project It also passed a compani companion n measure providing for deeding of 01 Utah lake lands to the federal gov |
