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Show military service of the United States or the state of Utah were killed in action 01 died as a insult of such service may be exempted as the legislature may provide. Intangible properly may be exempted from taxalion as property or it may be taxed as pioperty in such m annerand to such ex lent as the Legislature may provide, but if taxed as property! he income theieliom shall not also be taxed. Provided tli at if intangible pioperty is taxed as property the rate thereof shall not exceed five mills on each dpi la r of valuation. - (101 ed un or Legislature shall provide by law foi an annual tax sufficient, with other souices of revenue, to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the state for each fiscal year. For the purpose of paying the state debt, if any there be, the Legislature shall provide for levying a tax annually, sufficient to pay the annual interest and to pay the principal of such debt, within twenty years from the final passage of the law creating the debt. 111) The on nd ite ve m eft 3d Sec. 3. QJ The Legislature shall provide by law a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation on all tangible property in the state, according to its value in , except as otherwise provided in money section 2 of this Article. The Legislature shall prescribe by law such IregulatiofH provisions as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of such property, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her, or its tangible property, provided that the Legislatuie may deteimme the manner and extent of taxing transient! livestock and livestock being fed for ) . rki lighter to be used for- human tn of v a m r id ir 11 (2J Land use for agricultural purposes may, as the Legislature piescribes, be assessed according to its value foragricultural use without regard to the value it may have for other purposes. Intangible propeity may be exempt from taxation as properly or it may be taxed in such d d r il intangible property bo taxed as properly pod five millson each dollorof the rate thereof Pwvsded that e if shall-mde- it - s d xi taxable income therefrom shall bo taxed under any tax state of Utah as based otnm omes, but when taxi'd property? the tmorne therefrom shall not also be taxed. The legislature may provide for deductions? exemptions, and of off iets on any tax based upon income. The personal income tax rates shall be graduated but the maximum rate unomo: No excise tax shall not rate based upon int onto shall ext ood four percent of net tmorne-- the rate limitations hereto coot a mod for taxes onto and for taxes on intangible property shall based be effeitive until January 1, l')37, and thereafter until by-th- d e i s i i r on-t- e m eletled to em h house oi the legislature. All revenue received from taxes on nu omeor from taxes on intangible of the publio ated to as defined in Annie X, foctmn 2 of this i property-shatf-be-aflo- school-syste- the-sopp- m I i I Sec. 5. The Legislature shall not impose taxes for the purpose of any county, city, town or other municipal corporation, but may, by law, vest in the corporate authorities thereof, respectively, the power to assess and collect taxes for all purposes of such corporation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Constitution, political subdivisions may share their tax and other revenues with other political subdivisions as provided by statute. Sec. 6. An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public moneys, shall be published annually in such manner as the Legislature may provide. Sec. 7. The rate of taxation on tangible property shall s not exceed on each dollar of valuation, two and mills for general State purposes, and such additional levy as the Legislature may provide for the State's share of the support of a portion of the public school system as defined in Article X, Section 2 of this Constitution, such portion consisting only of kindergarten schools, common schools and high schools. The Stote shall contribute not more then 75 of the total cost of operation-en- d maintenance of q four-tenth- minimum school program in the State qo such program m time to time be determined upon- by the sholl-fro- Legislature. 75 of the State's portion of the to finance the operation and mainton ance minimum school program shell be raised by a State property tox levy andthc remainder thereof shall be sources. The Legislature shall roiscd from othcr-Statdetermine by law' the method of allocation of the State's contribution to the various school districts. Nof-more-t- ir t provided, but the basis and multiple now used in determining the value of metalliferous mines for taxation purposes and the additional assessed value of 55.00 per acre thereof shall not be changed before January 1, 1935, nor thereafter until otherwise provided by law. All other mines or mining claims and other valuable mineral deposits, including lands containing coal or hydrocarbons and all machinery used in mining and all property or surface improvements upon or appurtenant to mines or mining claims, and the value of any surface use made of mining claims, or mining property for other than mining purposes, shall be assessed as other tangible property. lature shall provide? Sec. 4. All metalliferous mines or mining i lanns, both 101k in plan' shall be assessed as the Legis placet and revenue-necessar- y Sec. 8. The making of profit out of public moneys or using the same for any purpose not authorized by law, by any public officer, shall be deemed a felony, and shall be punished as provided by law, but part of such punishment shall be disqualification to hold public office. Sec. 9. No appropriation shall be made, or any expenditure authorized by the Legislature, whereby the expenditure of the State, during any fiscal year, shall exceed the total tax then provided for by law, and applicable for such appropriation or expenditure, unless the Legislature making such appropriation, shall provide for levying a sufficient tax, not exceeding the rates allowed in section seven of this article, to pay such appropriation or expenditure within such fiscal year. This provision shall not apply to appropriations or expenditures to suppress insurrec- - |