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Show Utah's $77,600,000 '51 State Revenue Tops '50 by $9 Million profits are included in the revenue reve-nue computations. Revenue of the Utah State government for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1951, totaled $77,652,931, or approximately $9,600,000 more than the amount collected during the preceding fiscal year. Sales tax revenue increased $2,300,000 and revenue reve-nue from income tax Is (both individual in-dividual and corporate) increased increas-ed $2,200,000 during this same period. Smaller increases wert noted in almost every other state revenue source. The sales and use taxes cor tinue to be the largest sing .e source of state revenue, accounting account-ing for $16,300,000, or 21 of total state revenue in fiscal 1951. Federal grants-in-aid were $13,900,000 or 17.8 of the to-i tal, and motor vehicle taxes I (gasoline, registration and oth- I ers) amounted to $11,200,000 or 14.5 of the total. Other revenue reve-nue sources include income taxes (individual and corporate) $8,900,000 (11.4), general prop erty tax $6,800,000 (8.7), liquor liq-uor profits $3,700,000 (4.8), unemployment c o m p e n sation tax $3,400,000 (4.4), college fees $3,400,000 (4.4), mine occupation oc-cupation tax $1,400,000 (1.8), fish and game licenses and fees $1,000,000 (1.3), and other taxes, fees and collections $7,-600,000 $7,-600,000 (9.7). In the tabulation of total state revenues, nonrevenue receipts have been eliminated whenever it was practical to identify them from available records. It is believed that the resulting net revenue figure more accurately reflects the amounts available for expenditure than do total gross state- receipts. For example, exam-ple, this tabulation does not consider gross liquor sales as a revenue, but only hte net liquor |
