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Show YOUR PROPERTY TAXES Eee = ae z Davis Taxes: Good, Bad In ay 6 weeks, you can: & Maybe Ugly Lose 10-20 lbs. of Body aoe Increase your energy level Harden your body - Pepeere sour digs aback? By T.J Sun {no machines, creams, diets, drugs or gimmicks) Just you & one work- FARMINGTON —_ itcould be a strange confrontation over the back fence Picture a beaming couple, happy in their newly built home. gushing because they will pay less in propertytaxes thanlast year. Next doortheir neighboris not amused, her taxes are going up by a third. Tempersflare. Things are said. It gets ugly in Davis County. This week, county residents should start getting their tax bills, and for the most part they will find the news is good. But some will be bad. Despite seeing the value of their homes increase by an average of 30 percent during a recent reassessment, taxes in the county as a whole probably will go down, said Deputy Auditor LaMar Holt. Residents with homesbuilt before 1949, however, may see increases as high as 30 percent. The reason for the hike is that manyolder homeswere not regularly assessed. Newer homes, however, usually were assessed when they were built and thus their owners paid taxes based on a more accurate value. The effect was to have newer-homeresidents paying morethan their share. Only the oldest 10 percent of county homes may see dramatic increases, Holt says, and that numbercould change. Most Davis Countyresidents will see a change only within 5 percent up or down, and homesbuilt in the past five years will see “a meaningful reduction,” he said. “We didn’t single anybody out,” said County Assessor Willard Gardner. ‘Even mytaxes are Al Hartmann/The ike Tribune Robert Hellewell does notlike the possibility of a 30% tax hike on his Kaysville home. going up.” Residents whe see a decrease can thank recent state laws that reduce the amount governments can tax on the valueof a property. But for those in older homes, the prospect of a 30 percent tax jumpin oneyeardoesnot stand to reason. Especially since those homesare morelikely to be occupied by retired residents with fixed incomes. “I don’t understandall of a sudden why they want to pick on the older homes,” said Robert Hellewell, a 30-year resident of Kaysville with a pre-1949 home. Hellewell still considers himself a realist, though. No matter how hard someresidents get walloped, taxes area factoflife Si. Mark’s Hospital is pleased to welcome Harrison M. Lazarus, MD. Dr. Lazarus was awarded his medical deg ee fromJohns Hopkins Medical Schoolin 1964. He servedas an internand junior assistant resident at Summit County At Top of Utah Tax Valuations In addition to property-valuerelated increases,taxes will be going up in the ParkCity schoo} district after approval by voters there for more education funding. Tax notices have been delayed because of computerglitches, but @% From Previous Page are expected out this week, said dairy farmer. ‘People in those older homes are going to be almost out of their minds” when they receive their tax bills. As jolting as upcoming tax hikes will be, they would have been worse had legislators not acted to lowertax rates to partially offset soaring property values. Without the legislative relief, “some residents would have had to sell their homes,” Uresaid. wove, |10 YEAR CONDITIONNG DEALER Kresser. Solid tax-rate information was unavailable as of Friday. Changes in the homeowners’ exemption — from 32 percent to 45 percent — will not help those who own second homes. Aboutsevenof 10 housesin the Park City area are second homes subject to tax on 100 percent of market value, Kresser estimates. Summit County is being sued by 12 homeownersclaiming the different treatment amounts toillegal discrimination. 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