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Show Commercial Property Tax Hike Anticipated Commercial property tax assessments in Garfield County will be raised 19-percent this year, according to figures compiled by the Utah Foundation. The private tax research organization's latest report, in-cidated that tax assessments on unimproved land in Garfield County will go up by 40-percent. Residential property tax will be lowered by 6-percent, the Foundation report stated. Valuations for property tax purposes on commercial and unimproved properties in Utah will rise sharply next year, while average residential assessments In the state could decline slightly in 1983. According to the study, the, average assessment on commercial property in Utah will increase by 24 percent next year throughout the state. This will vary all the way from a decline of 1 percent in Piute County to a rise of 57 percent in Juab County. Assessments on unimproved land will be boosted by an average of 40 percent throughout Utah in 1983. Again, the changes will range from a decline of 2 percent in Piute County to an increase of 834 percent (more than 9 13 times) in Emery County. Residential assessments, on the other hand, will decline by an average of 2 percent in the state next year. However, there will be considerable variation in the changes made on residential property among Utah counties. On one hand, Piute, .County will experience a 21-percent 'decline, but Juab' County, homeowners will suffer a 23 percent assessment increase in 1983. Foundation analysts explain that the assessment changes that will be made in 1983 are the result of (1) legislative changes made in 1982 which became effective when the voters approved Proposition 1 last November, and (2) the. factoring (Continued on Page 2) Class Sizes (Continued from Page 1) past years. He said that of 7,168 elementary classes in Utah that supplied data for the UEA's annual survey of class sizes, 5,570 have classes with 25 or more students in them. Results of another segment of the UEA study will soon be releasedhe section on class sizes in middle schools, junior high schools and high schools. |