Show I I L. L L PAYS HALF g 1 OF SALES TAX t Nearly earlY half of Utah's s sales tax is paid Salt by-Salt Lake City r Food products pay more more sales safeS tax revenue mue than any other commodity with with h 1 general merchandise running a los t a tT T four four venty-four cities In the thc state witha with population of 2500 2300 or more each b pay three fourths of the entire en en- tire sales tax LOX s and other ather fa facts concernIng concernIng concern- concern Ing Izig who p pays and what for were disclosed li Saturday in a report prep prepared pre pre- p pared fared ed for the state tax commission bv V. V H. H Coombs Coomb statistician It Itis is the first such study tudy since the sales tax tar law Jaw went into effect The report reporters covers Vers ers the period from September lt J J January nuary 31 During that month five-month period B Salt lt Lake City contributed 82 2 6 2 of the total pS Salt S lt Lake county paid f Weber second paying and nd Utah county third with Other counties which p paid pid id more than each w were re Cache Carbon Box Elder Eider Sanpete S V er Davis Iron Juab and Summit Sum Sum- nIt mit Taxes Tax paid by other brother other cities include O. O Ogden e Pr Provo vo Logan Lka n Price Murray Brigham City 1 Cedar City and Richfield Taxes aXes p paid id on an n foodstuffs amounted amount amount- ed to while those on general gen gen- eral merchandise totaled in the utilities groups were Electric power ower and ind light gas heat and water telephone telephone tele tele- p phone ne and aud telegraph and nd transportation 1268 1 I i. i |