Show I Duchesne Has Highest Tax Grand is Low Property owners In Duchesne city enjoy the somewhat doubtful doubt ful honor of paying the highest property tax rate of any residents resident's resl resle dents dent's In Utah It Is shown by byan byan byan an examination of official reports re reo ports of levies now on file tUe with the State Tax Commission The total levy In Duchesne IS Jq hi mills or almost 7 on each of the assessed valuation of their property of which a total of 33 mills Is for tor schools Provo Is a dote close second with mills total levy of which 37 mills Is for schools The total levy in Grand county coun ty outside of Moab city Is mills th the lowest In the state The Moab city levy is 16 mills among the lowest municipal levies levies' In the state The total levy Inside Mo Moab b city Is mills Of the cities and towns In n the state 32 have property tax ax levies this year of more than han 60 GO mills or 6 per cent of the tho assessed value 33 more have lave levies of more than 5 55 mills or 5 per cent The 1951 property tax levies lev ies les said Raid Patrick Healy Jr chairman of the Utah State Tax Commission seem to emphasize size ize the fact tact that Utah cities and towns as well as the schools are placing great d dependence de on the property tax to finance the services which the he commissions and councils find their constituents are requiring re reo re- re quiring of the local govern govern- ments High tax levies are arc commonest com corn monest in the larger centers of Copulation where the need for governmental government l services Is great est Profits of ot the state liquor monopoly and the proceeds of motor vehicle registration fees go now to towns cities and counties Such diversion of revenue revenue rev rev- collected by the state may help somewhat to Improve the quality of local governmental service Certainly they have not served so far to lower the property prop prop- erty tax rates which this year will be found on the average to be bo higher we believe than ever before In Utah |