Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-05-29 | Page 7 | More Power to be Equalizers

i f I More Power to the Equalizers IL I 4 V L V r V PROPONENTS and opponents of various c M taxing schemes chernes mes for Utah will doubtlessly all Il be agreed on one ne need d nu namely ely Jh that t th the state board of equalization and assessment be given much luch greater power than it now has J J. S. S president of th the Denver Rio Grande Western Vestern railroad expresses the point well when he tells the state stat tax revision commission that t the lithe board should be definitely nit l clothed with the power and impressed with the obligation actually to equalize the V burdens of taxation upon all classes of prop prop- erty The duty of the he board should be mandatory mandatory man man- to the end nd that it shall in iii fact aCcomplish accomplish ac actual equalization n and that its judgment judg judg- V ment in this r respect shall reflect th the distribution distribution tion lion of the burdens of taxation in accordance with the actual values of the property af af- af- af V V Problems of assessment and taxation n need ned ed to b be tak taken n out of politics with chances of f- f gu or favoritism by assessors minimized mini mini- d. d The state stat tax administration ne needs ds t to b be bt he headed ded up by the state board of equalization z t on and assessment but such a board boardl weds needs l eds wide powers and strong commissioners Mr Pyeatt has called att attention to one reform that th the tax r revision commission should byall by byall all all- means include its its program of r eom- eom