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Show c4 ___The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday, Battle Is Brewing Over Taxes @ Continued from C-1 viewed on the record. Jerry Hayes, president of the Utah Automobile Dealers Association, said his group is involved actively in the campaign to curb city taxing powers. Hayes called the business-license fee a “loophole” that must be plugged. “T’ve had my dealers in Nephi really upset about it, because it puts them at a competitive disad- restricts the ability of a communi- vantage with those just across the ty to do whatit thinks best.” county line,” he said. But Charles Parkin, who owns one of Nephi’s two auto dealer- Moabrecently imposed an additional 0.5% business-license fee on hotels, motels and camper parks. The hike pushed the over- all motel-roomtax rate to 11.5% —a levelthat angered someinnkeepers and may havehelped fuel the drive to repeal the business license-fee law. Butthe real catalyst appears to be Nephi's adoption July 1 of a -25%tax on sales. City administrator Randy McKnight insists a majority of residents supported the tax as a wayto pay for roadrepairs, which they said was Nephi’s No. 1 need. But the tax sparkedspirited op- position by a group of business owners,led by car dealer Patrick Painter, who declinedto be inter- ships, said the tax has not slowed his business at all. And he defended the concept of local control. “Weelectedourcity officials to make those decisions and I trust that they researched this and madeit in the best interests of everybody,” Parkin said. ‘“That’s what we've got them in office for. The Utah Taxpayers Association has a strikingly different ard Stephensonsaid in the organization’s Septembernewsletter. Stephenson, a state senator, complained cities are using the business-license fee to “circumvent” the law. And he charged thatcity councils and county commissions can be manipulated far more easily by bureaucrats and special-interest lobbyists than the 104-member part-time Legislature. The comments steamed Utah League of Cities and Towns leader Ken Bullock. “These types of allegations against local officials are reprehensible,” fumed Bullock. “He Scores of cities rely on pro- ceeds from the levy, whichis distributed on a formula based 50% on population and 50% on point of sale. city and county counterparts by Valentine fears that a city with abolishing their authority to pass any gun-control ordinancesstricter than state law, andbyrestricting so-called “impact fees” im- a large retail base, tired of sharing the wealth, could repeal its optional 1% sales tax. It could then turn around and impose an “While it’s not fair to paint all e of them with the same brush, we have come to realize that in many ways local governments are the least responsive and the least POLL re : MECHANICAL, ING ionbas 266-8200 PRE - SEASON SALE Truckload Heating Sale Guaranteed Lowest Prices of the Year. 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