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Show Utah taxes 1 1th highest in U.S. while our individual income tax ranking dropped from eighth to 10th." Last year, Davis County residents paid a 3.73 percent effective rate of state income in the earning bracket between $50,000 and $75,000, while state residents combined paid an effective rate of 3.42 percent. A spokesperson at the Utah State Tax Commission stated that these figures indicate that Davis County has a larger" proportion of upper middle-class wage earners when compared to the remainder of the state. "Utah's tax ranking continues to be high primarily because of our relatively large number of school-age school-age children and the taxes required to fund their education, Stephenson Stephen-son said. "A whopping 53 percent of Utah's $791 million property tax collections goes to local school districts, while 100 percent of state individual income tax collections of $652 million goes to fund our public pub-lic schools." Utah's taxes are 11th highest among the 50 states and the District of Columbia according to a study by the Utah Taxpayers Association. Associa-tion. While the national average of personal income tax in 1989 increased in-creased slightly from $115.62 to $115.67, Utah's total state and local taxes per $1 ,000 of personal income dropped from $129.19 to $124.11, from 10th to 11th highest in the nation, as indicated in a booklet titled titl-ed "How Utah Compares," provided provid-ed by the Utah Taxpayers Association. Associa-tion. Howard Stephenson of the association stated, "Utah's ranking in property tax remained 25th in the nation. Our ranking for state sales taxes dropped from ninth to 11th, |