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Show Legislative time vital to all citizens State has usual lack of revenue headaches Legislative times are vitally vi-tally important to all citizens citi-zens of the state, both old and young. In this period, laws are passed that we must live with over the years. Both the quality and quantity of public services will be determined by the legislature. The tax load will also be set and apportioned, appor-tioned, fairly or otherwise, among taxpayers. These are important times with many problems, reports Utah Taxpayers Tax-payers Association. This was put very well by the Governor in his bud- to 1. Yield - $12.-000,000. $12.-000,000. SB. 145 To increase ti;e markup on liquor by 3 -- Yield $600,000. Total increased burden, if all of these are adopted, would be $48,400,000. It would increase per capita state and local taxes by $48, or 14. Nor is this all. This does not include additional property taxes that will be levied to recoup revenue losses los-ses caused by implementing the Inventory Tax Exemption Exemp-tion and Greenbelt legislation. get message. "The great bulk of the money recommended recom-mended in my budget goes into services which I believe be-lieve are essential. If the appropriations are not available, avail-able, the services must be reduced but if the services are requested, then the people peo-ple of Utah must pay the costs." Here are the costs the costs in higher taxes. All of these bills, if passed, will in crease Utah's tax load: The Governor in his budget bud-get message recommended additional tax changes for which bills await introduction. introduc-tion. To increase the state tax from 3 to 4 Yield $23,000,000. To increase the basic school levy from 16 to 18 mills Yield $3,400,000. To increase the cigarette tax from 8 cents to 12 cents per pack Yield $2,500,000. To increase the mine occupation occu-pation tax Yield $1,900.-000. $1,900.-000. S B. 21 To increase the top bracket on the individual individ-ual income tax from 6V2c7c to 6. S.B. 70 To increase the gasoline tax from 6 cents to 7 cents Yield $5,000.-000. $5,000.-000. S B. 74 To increase the local option sales tax from |