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Show Utahns pay more taxes Utah taxpayers spend a greater percentage of their income in-come on taxes than residents of 37 other states. Even in Connecticut, Connec-ticut, where the average individual in-dividual makes nearly twice as much as the average Utahn, residents pay nearly 3 percent less in taxes. According to the Utah Taxpayers Tax-payers Association's 1992 edition edi-tion of "How Utah Compares," the average Utahn paid $1,582.05 in state and local taxes in 1990, a .19 percent decrease from the tax levied in 1989. This decrease in taxes moved Utah from the tenth highest paying ! state to the thirteenth. Residents of Alaska made i about 35 percent more than Utah residents in 1990 and paid the highest tax percentage of all the states, giving up nearly 19 percent per-cent of their personal incomes. They paid 38 percent more in local taxes than Utahns did in state and local taxes combined. However, while they do pay local taxes, Alaska is one of seven states which do not collect individual income tax and, like Delaware, New Hampshire and Oregon, does not collect state sales tax. New Hampshire residents on average made nearly 33 percent more than the average Utahn. However, without the imposition of a state tax their local tax was 31 percent lower than Utah's state and local taxes combined. However, Utahns did not pay more than the average American on all accounts. Utah was below the national average on property tax collections. collec-tions. Utah was 27th in the field, paying only $33.31 per $1,000 personal income compared to Alaska's $60.08 (highest) and Alabama's $1 1.74 (lowest). |