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Show Women should take note of the latest report of Senator Harry F. Byrd which shows that the federal civilian payroll pay-roll has grown from $4.9 billion bil-lion in 10 years, with raises and upgrading more responsible respons-ible than for the rise than an increase in the number of employees. Taxes take big slice of Ufahns income Utah ranked 15th among the fifty states in the proportion of its personal income going for state and local taxes during dur-ing the 1963 fiscal year according ac-cording to a study just completed com-pleted by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. organ-ization. Total state and local tax collections in fiscal 1963 amounted to $230.1 million which was equal to 11.51 of Utah's personal income. This percentage compares with 11 44 for the .eight Mountain States and 10.80 for the U. S. as a whole. These 1963 figures, however did not reflect the tax increases in-creases made by the 1963 Utah Legislature. The Foundation Foun-dation report indicates that preliminary figures show that the state and local tax collections collec-tions in Utah for the 1964 fiscal fis-cal year reached $256.9 million or 12.34 of personal income. The 1964 average state and local tax burden for the eight Mountain States is calculated to be 11.78 of personal income. in-come. According to the Foundation study, except for gambling taxes, Utah imposes all of the important taxes found in any of the other states. Because of this broad tax coverage, Utah's overall tax structure is similar to the profile of the composite tax structure of the Mountain States and the United States as a whole. Although Utah's tax system approximates the composite of the region and the nation, the report observes that its expenditure expen-diture pattern is markedly different. dif-ferent. According to the study, Utah devotes a much larger percentage of its total state and local expenditures to education edu-cation than do most of the other states. Last year 46 of all state and local expenditures in Utah went for education, compared with 41 for the eight Mountain States and 36 percent for the nation as a whole. Foundation analysts point out that the principal reason for this emphasis on educational educa-tional expenditures in Utah is the large school load resulting from the great number of school-age children, the scarcity scar-city of private schools, the large college load, and the high value placed on education by the citizenry of the state. In comparing the impact of the various taxes, the report observes that based on limited data, "it would appear that the property taxes paid by the average home owner in Utah is . average or slightly below the average found throughout the eight Mountain States." Because of different methods and ratios used in assessing other classes of property, this same general conclusion cannot can-not be applied to the other property clesses in Utah. The Found a t i o n analysis shows that the combined state and local sales tax rate in the Mountain States amounts to 4 in three states, 2 in two states, and 3 in Utah. Two of the Mountain States (Montana (Mon-tana and Idaho) do not presently pres-ently levy a sales tax. An analysis by the Foundation Founda-tion of the third major tax source the income tax shows that Utah's individual income tax burden is close to the average av-erage tax imposed by the six Mountain States with the tax. Two of the Mountain States (Nevada and Wyoming), however, how-ever, do not levy an income tax. Heavy dieting for those who are caught in the web of night-eating night-eating could have immediate physical and emotional strains |