Show o o- o Sales Tax Proves Most Profitable Revenue Source The sales tax was the best state tax source in a n total of f 30 states during the 1958 fiscal year according to an nn analysis just released by Utah Foundation Foundation Foundation tion the private nonprofit tax research organization Sales tax pulled ahead ahead a- a head of the severance tax ill iii Louisiana Louisiana- to become the leading revenue producer in that state last year Florida and Maine which formerly relied on the g gas gasoline a s o 0 l 11 i n e tax as ns their chief source of revenue also found that the sales tax became the number one tax source in 1958 The Foundations Foundation's report pointed point point- ed out that more han 55 per percent percent percent cent of Washington's total state tax revenue in fiscal 1958 was derived from the sales tax with West Virginias Virginia's re retail ail sales and business oc occupation taxes bringing bringing bringing bring bring- ing in 60 50 per cent of that states state's total tax collections Indiana's gross in income ome tax was was' good for foi 46 per cent Other states in which sales or gross receipts taxes accounted for 40 per cent centor or more of a states state's tax revenue are arc George 40 Michigan 40 tJ- tJ cand and Illinois 43 Utah's 2 sales tax brought in or about 31 of the States State's tax revenue last 1st fearo year fear 0 o |