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Show Taxes increase faster on local level, says report Federal taxes increased less than 9, while increases in the proportion of personal income going for state and local tax es was 29.4 and 14.2 respectively. re-spectively. By way of comparison, compar-ison, the Foundation pointed out that between the pre-war year of 1940 and 1956, the portion por-tion of Utah personal income taken by Federal taxes increased increas-ed nearly 230. Over that same period, due to the rapid rise in personal income, the proportion taken by state and local taxes declined by about one-fourth. In 1966, Utahns will pay nearly $827 million in taxes at all levels, the Foundation reported. re-ported. Federal taxes account for about 63 of the total, state taxes for 23, and local taxes for the remaining 14. Property taxes continue to be the largest producer of state and local tax revenue in Utah, but the Foundation noted that both sales and income taxes have increased proportionately more in recent years. Education remains the major area of government spending in Utah, the 1966 total reaching almost $163 million in state funds alone, in addition to money mon-ey provided by local school districts. dis-tricts. Education r e presents 47.7 of all state spending for the year. The year 1966 was marked by a succession of efforts directed di-rected at changing the basic structure of state government, the Foundation noted in its yearend review. Taxes at state and local levels lev-els in Utah are increasing more rapidly than Federal taxes, although al-though Federal imposts continue con-tinue to take the largest bite from Utahns' income, it is indicated in-dicated n a yearend review released re-leased this week by Utah Foundation. The increases in indivdual and corporate income taxes enacted en-acted by the 1965 Legislature, and successive increases in the sales tax rate in recent years, were cited by the Foundation, a non-profit public service agency, as major factors in narrowing the gap between the impact of Federal and state taxes. In the decade between 1956 and 1966, the proportion of total personal income taken for |