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Show County Opposes Removal Of Livestock Tax Garfield County is opposed to the removal of the long-standing property tax on livestock. Responding to a letter from Kennetii B. Creer, commissioner, Utah State Department of Agriculture, Garfield County through its commissioners and county assessor went on record as being opposed to the removal of the livestock property tax. The letter to Creer, signed by commissioners George Middleton and Dell LeFevre, and assessor Doyle Cottom explained this apparently unlikely position for a county in which one of the most important industries is the raising of livestock, by stating that the loss to the county in revenue would be approximately $21,000 annually. To offset such a loss, it would be necessary to raise the county mill levy by 2 mills, the commissioners explained in the letter. They did not feel, the letter stated, that county residents would be at all pleased with such a raise in their tax rate and felt instead that the better solution was to keep the present tax intact. The 43rd legislature recently passed a resolution to place the removal of the property tax on livestock issue on the 1980 ballot for voter approval. Each county in the state was being polled by Creer with responses to be forwarded to the Agricultural Advisory Board for its May meeting. |