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Show PROPERTY TAX OFFERS CHIEF SCHOOL INCOME lEaltor'l nate: ThU ! ibt thlrtrenlta In eerie of ebart nbovluf aew I'tah' (duration nnpirn Willi thai of Che ether 47 itatee. Ihli chart Ml areaared by th I'tah Foundation from report! of lb Utah saporla-Undent saporla-Undent of Pablic Intlrurtlon. I lab Foundation report will be enl without chart to an. Interested elllten of I'tah apon reaaeat diroeted to Ike I'tah Foundation. 4WI Darling Bid., 811 Lake Citr I.) Utah public schools received $43,17-1,295 in the 1931-52 school year, compared to $32,487,006 in 1949-50 and $34,733,735 in 1950-51. Property taxes accounted for 63.1 per cent of the total school revenue received -during the 1951-52 school year. Of the $43,174,295 revenue received by the school districts, property taxes amounted to $27,242,651. State aid to local school districts during the year was $16,700,000. or 38.7 per cent ol total Mi:'r Xw state funds mxp&tf A revenue receipts. Ixical school funds were $24,744,899, or 57.3 per cent of the total. Federal aid was $1,700,000. Practically all of the state aid to local school districts is channeled through the Uniform School Fund under terms oi the minimum school program. Chief sources of revenue distributed from the Uniform School Fund in 1951-52 school year were the state's school property tax ($5,200,000). individual income tax ($6,700,000), and the corporation franchise tax ($3,000,000). In addition to the above sources of revenue, the 1951 Special Session of the Utah Legislature appropriated $750,000 from sales tax revenue (Emegency Relief Fund) to the Uniform School Fund for each of the 1952 and 1953 fiscal years. The liquor tax produced $500,000 for the school lunch program. |