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Show ified equalization program providing pro-viding for much smaller assessment as-sessment increases will be applied ap-plied in ths these other Wasatch Wa-satch Front counties this year. The other 22 counties will not be affected by the .changes, i Taxes going up here, reports Utah Foundation Many property owners in the seven Wasatch Front counties of Salt Lake, Box Elder, Weber, We-ber, Cache, Davis, Tooele and Utah will receive an upward adjustment in their 1964 property prop-erty assessments according to a study just released by Utah Foundation, the nonprofit tax research organization. The Foundation study observes ob-serves that these 1964 assessment assess-ment equalization changes are designed (1) to raise the general gen-eral assessment level of buildings build-ings and structures as part of a program seeking to equalize assessment rates for the various var-ious classes of property, (2) to eliminate inequities that exist between assessments on older and newer properties, and (3) to provide a greater degree de-gree of assessment uniformity among properties of the same class according to type and use. Two years ago the State Tax Commission ordered blanket blan-ket assessments increases ranging ran-ging from 2 to 17 on buildings, build-ings, structures, and other improvements im-provements in certain sections of Salt Lake City, Ogden, Pro-vo, Pro-vo, and parts of Salt Lake County after sales ratio studies stu-dies revealed that average assessment as-sessment ratios in these areas were generally low. These earlier ear-lier assessment boosts will be cancelled in Salt Lake County (including Salt Lake City) this year as the latest equalization equal-ization adjustments are made. The- new equalization program pro-gram which will go into effect ef-fect in Salt Lake County this year was also scheduled for the other Wasatch Front counties coun-ties of Box Elder, Cache, Weber, We-ber, Davis, Tooele and Utah in 1964, the Foundation reports. re-ports. Instead, however, a mod- |