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Show Wednesday, August 27, 1980 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah7A na)ii4tEaaE3EroCMj' qaiiwageomBaaniBb qitlHHEr(ion3It t&CJjBdl) m. jflC? aaBQ m (tom ones imte l&3ZXItS2PlDSiI Qntermediate&TAd vance .j tQSSElEDOQnt) Utah property taxes open to criticism Because of various tax relief measures enacted during recent years the actual loss of a home or other valuable property through a ax sale is an extremely rare occurrence in Utah. This was emphasized by Utah Foundation, the tax research organization in a study of tax sale procedures in Utah. Although the loss of a home through a tax sale is rare, the Foundation report notes that the Utah procedure is open to criticism. Among the problems indicated by the study are the following: The tax notice may be sent to the wrong party and there may be confusion over who is responsible . for the payment of taxes. The taxpayer may not be Ex-employ- aware of all the tax relief measures and options open to him, such as circuit breaker and indigent abatement. More legal discretion is needed by county officials in the disposal of tax delinquent property. Property tax sales in Utah intwo distinct steps a preliminary tax sale, and a final volve tax sale. At the preliminary tax sale, held each January, the county registers a formal lien against the property for the unpaid taxes of the previous year. After four years, through a final tax sale, the property may be sold and the title changes hands. Earlier this year, considerable publicity was given to a ci:se involving a widow who almost lost her home during a property tax sale, despite the fact that she had made regular montlily payments for several years. The home had been purchased under a contract sale and the widow assumed that the monthly Legal clarification is needed to allow preferential treatment at tax sales to owners of record andor other persons with possessory rights. The current method of bidding at a tax sale is cumbersome and actually increases the number of properties which have to be handled. There appears to be a substantial gap in communications between the state legislature and county officials in the handling of tax sales in Utah. Officials to speak house payment included an amount for taxes. Meanwhile, the W. Robert Wright, tax notice had been sent to the owner of record and remained Utahs Republican Gubernatorial Caunpaid. will be Happily, the story had a ndidate, satisfactory ending when an featured speaker at a anonymous benefactor paid the back taxes and penalties. The widow was able to retain her home. This case, however, did invoke considerable criticism of tax sale procedures in Utah and even raised some questions con- Carbon County Fund Raising Dinner at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29. The dinner will be held in the Peacock Room in Price. Wright will review differences betthe cerning the morality of the ween his campaign tax. property and political views, It could likely have been and those of Scott prevented had the law changes Matheson. been enacted to avoid the conFor information call fusion which present procedures Shana Taylor, make possible. ee Price effective thru 830, un-l- otherwi gets arrested specified. UMWA employs VOTIE for Guido Rachiele j : j : : for : : County Commissioner: 4-Y- ear on Sept. 9 j : DEMOCRATIC ! : Primary Election : on the pair the Husky gas she saw someone who station west of Price she identified as Ms. was arrested by Wieland reach in the Carbon County file cabinet, take Sheriffs deputies something and put it in of Ms Monday in connection her jeans. with the theft of $270 Pollock then llegedly returned and comfrom the station. Jana Kay Wieland, pleted the transaction. 19, was booked and After the suspect left, released on her own the employee told Ms recognizance. She was Pollock what she had instructed to appear at seen. The sheriffs the sheriffs office office was then Thursday after a notified. complaint has been Ms Wieland was signed. arrested at the later Rita Pollock, the corner of 1st South and suspects former 1st East in Price. 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