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Show CITY COMfflSSIOW ORDERS DRASTIC GUT IN BUDGET ESTIMATES CAEl FOR HIGH TAXJIE Saving of $326,536.94 1. Necessary to ReduceTax- ation to Ten Mills; Audi-! Audi-! tor Submits His Report i . . PK I-L1M IN A RY budget "" Vsti-niati's Vsti-niati's of the various city de-i de-i partmruls must be cut $326.-5.16.94 $326.-5.16.94 if the tax levy for 1921 is to be reduced from the 1920 rate of II mills to 10 mills. This developed de-veloped yesterday nt a special meet inj? ef the city commission, when City Auditor II. 8. McCann submitted a report shoninR thl the various drnart- ments hnd requested a total appropriation appropria-tion of $3,008,726 26. wrfich Is approximately approxi-mately $60,000 more than the totnl expended ex-pended by the city during The commissioners, nt the recommendation of Mayor C Clarence Neslen. Immediately Imme-diately referred nil the eHtimtites back to the department heads "to be cut I to the hone. j That the tax levy will be reduced -in in m ih.. li ...it;.. ,.f j,,. urn y- tically been definln-iy decided by the cornmiHHiont rs, although there seemed to le little hope yenterduy Hint the cut could be msije large enough to achieve the Irt-mlll rnte. A 10 or a t-mi:i levy aemed more likely. SUIT LOST. Complications arising out of the I'tah-Idaho Sugar company tax suit, in which the district court recently ruled that u $10,000,000 asyeftirment on socnlled "intangible assets' of the company wns Illegal und axe nn it fi-oult) not b collet-ted. has changed the whole complexion of the ttudget estl-mnte estl-mnte of the city for 12I. Iiy law. the ' commissioners make their calculations on fhe i'0 assessed valuation, and this twiit mean tn.'tt the tax on approximately approximate-ly $10,000,000 of the assessed valuation valua-tion will be uncollectuble. This must be discounted in figuring the. revenue from taxes, although an appeal from ; the deeiMon of the district court to the supreme court is said to he con-jt"mplatd con-jt"mplatd The uneolleotable taxfiji- ured -nrr The basin ra 10-mill levy. would amount tu between $H0.0f0 and ' fuo.ooo. CUT NECESSARY. . Procetding on the hnm of a lo-mill levy, the apparent revenue of $2,724.-i $2,724.-i .".1 has been figured from nil , Hourc k. The amount remaining In the city treasury at the end of 1920 ($L'l7.-6 ($L'l7.-6 2 H1 makes u loial of $2.942. 1 Hit. i riim this amount the SI 10,000 of prob- ably uurolier table laxe on the erro- neons awseRsment of $ 1 0,H0,000 must i be deduct Audi lor McCann told ! ih rommi-.:onerw yesterday. He de-j dared. f.irlfuT. Ih it at leant $1&0.000 riiimi ie pro. ided for the unappru-J pi i.ied and enict gency fund. I i Yum thtse statementH t Me comm.- j sion-rrt found that ttie preliminary budget estimate of $.1.0011.726 will have In be trimmed exactly $326...tW4 to I allow a 10-mill levy. While there seemed io e little hope that the full amount can Ire pruned away from the huiig"i reiieitts. it was xenerully con- j ctled that at leant a considerable pur-j Tion will be cut and that the budget will demand a levy .f not more than 104 rnil'f. j I'urther butlgt-t eH!fin tif the com-. miSMon Will be hl djrtllg the Meek., |