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Show for county purposes amounted to $J0,278, 13.2 of the total-municipal total-municipal taxes were eui $,55,859 or 8.8; taxes i.iipc" by special i npiovemjnt uiJ-tricts uiJ-tricts loiaied $j,jjt or and bounty acs aiou .iea 8,ZZj or J..O CJ. i.hiout;.iciuL tia.e s.a u scnool ,a..cai Uj.j a.e i.a local; a..uj... .or OI the to.ai piopy ,ax 10ad in 1969. was $249,386 or 64.2 above li.-j 1950 l.-vcl. Throughout the .-,a s pi opt l .V taxes rose by 7; iajt yem- and have in- . -.; i by oJ.1 siice 1360. ' r, u d-i(ioi notes, how- ; , -.-. that the property tax has 1) c, ri: i:-g at approximately j rat-j of the increase in ; . najor taxes in Utah. For j fvaipJe. total s ate nonr.rop-, nonr.rop-, ,...! y taxes in Utah increased i m i::03 and 100.8 : 'f.cc IH-SJ. Sales tax collec-we collec-we nt up 11.7 last year ,n.'"r',i b iw.cn 1930 and i 1969. State individual incom-a taxes climber 17.5 in 1969 an.-; 2iJ.3 (.r.oic ;han thr.-c Tfr-n-i" :o--i -i" ' J q T-i " out that th2 ma. ct;r.erts i-the i-the property tax riso d.u'ing recent y.-.ar' ' lr-1 '",p ' T'"i'1 '-vv increase ' ed to the a "c " "s " ment adju. t' -nL.s einmug from the re.J :f!'o:i pro-rams. The average ...ill 1-'V 3ca" ver County last year was 77.72 mills. This compares with an av:-a"e envty-wids rate of 7?.?7 mills in 1335 ar.d 65.82 mills in 1960. Sch-1 cnr.tini'e to receive the largest s'ire from prrperty tax receipts. S.ate and local property taxes levied for support sup-port of the public schools in Beaver County last year totaled -457,872. This was equal to 71.8 of all property taxec imposed in the county. Taxes BUS'NESSES PAY 53 OF TAXES IN COUNTY Owners of commerc'al ad industrial property paid $340.-201 $340.-201 or 53.3 of the total property prop-erty taxes charged in Beaver County last year. This compares com-pares with property taxes of $95,392 or 15.0 of the total, on residential property; $40,527 or 6.4 on motor vehicles (passenger cars and trucks), and $140,628 or 22.1 on agricultural agri-cultural property - farm real estate, farm buildings, machinery machin-ery and livestock. These facts were reported in a Utah Foundation analysis of property tax data compiled by the State Tax Commission. The Foundation report notes that in 1969 for the state as a whole, approximately 50.5 of the total property tax burden bur-den was borne by owners of commercial and industrial property, 36.3 by owners of residential property, 7.2 by owners of motor vehicles, and , 5.6 by agricultural property ' owners. Total property taxes imposed ; in Beaver Coun'y last year ! amounted to $637,831, according I to the Foundation study. This represented an increase of $21,856 or 3.5 frcm the 196C 1968 property tax total and |