Show Utah Ran Ranks s Eleventh in Tax Burden ut Utah h ranks eleventh among all the states slates of the nation in inthe inthe the proportion of its personal income going for state slate and local taxes This fact was reported by utah Foundation the private tax lax research organization in their latest analysis of st state ate and local ocal tax lax burdens in the fifty states stales Data used in this study were obtained from from a recent report of the Governments Div Division ision of the US U S Bureau of the Census ACCORDING to the lice lion ann analysis lysis the total state an and local tax burden in Utah during the fi fiscal year totaled nearly million This ed cd all general taxes plus un un- unemployment employment compensation tax es and liquor monopoly profits obtained in lieu of special liquor taxes State and local tax collections received during the GG 1965 fis- fis fiscal us cal year were equal to 1277 per pel percent cent of Utah's total personal in in- in income come for the 1965 1905 calendar year The study notes that this percentage was considerably above the US average of 1123 per cent and that Utah I ranked eleventh among the fifty stales slates by this measure of the tax burden FOUNDATION analysts point out that most lax authorities agree that the most meaning Ltd fIll comparison of the tax bur bur- burden burden den is obtained by relating taxes to personal income They note that taxes a as s a percentage of personal income has become the lice most widely recognized and accepted measure of a states state's relative ve tax burden since all taxes ultimately must be paid from income either past present or future The Foundation analysis however does relate state stale an and local tax collections to total population tion in the working age brackets Total state stale and local taxes in Utah last year averaged a for every man woman and child residing in the State This compares with per pel capita state and local tax collections of for the nation as a whole UTAH however has an Db ab- ab abnormally normally high proportion of Its population lion in the working pre pre working and working post age brackets The Foundation report shows that approximately per r Cent of Utah's total population were either un under er 21 or 65 years of age and over o This was the f fourth highest percent percent- percentage age In the and compares with a US U S average of per percent percent cent in these age categories state and local taxes are related to persons in the normal tax producing age groups group 2164 21 64 then Utah is found to be above the national average In fiscal 1966 state stale and local tuxes taxes in Utah were equal to per person in inthe inthe the normal working age group compared with for the lice na- na tiun liun as a whole |