| Show the salt lake F a m v 1955 and local 1 0 STATE expenditure PER FAMILY mp N 4 1 4 T LAKE CIT Y COST TATE P FAMILY INCOME TAXES 33 SALES TAX TAXES im 37 1 GEAS linie AND ISALT LAKE COUNTY CAR TAXES 35 PER FAMILY 73 A utah economic and business review total direct taxes paid to state and local government in utah by the av family do not approach the cost of the direct services of govern ment furnished by the state county municipal and school governmental units it was declared in a research report released today by utah foun dation the non profit private tax re search agency the study tabulates all state and local taxes paid by a family owning a 10 residence with a 5 an nual income driving a 1000 car 9 miles per year and assumed to pay its pro rata share of all mis cel lanous state and local taxes on individuals the total state and lo 10 cal taxes paid by such a family if living in salt lake city in 1955 aou id be this total is made up of property taxes 33 state income tax 60 sales tax 35 gasoline and li cense taxes and 37 miscellaneous taxes for this tax bill the family receives services of state and local government costing per family the state expenditure per family ex eluding chiding expenditures met from fed eral aid funds was per family salt lake county and salt lake city expenditures amounted to 73 and per family for the family with two three or four children in the public schools the school expenditure would be in creased per child making the cost of state and local government services 1100 for the family with two school age children 1385 wit with hever ever such payments represent only three and 1672 with four children in the public schools the utah foundation study an albing this relationship between tax es paid by individuals and the cost of government services comments ss ars follows it is apparent therefore that the addition of a residential resident I 1 al subdivision to the tax rolls of a corn com unless there is a correspond corre spon ding addition of capital and business investment which shows on the tax rolls by employers of the family wage earners is actually a net ity to the state and local government govern men tal units affected with the taxes paid by the average family totaling and the cost of state and local government services amounting to the difference must be made up from tax revenues paid by the commercial and industrial business enterprises which provide the em to the family income ea earn m ers it is of course true that all taxes in the last analysis must be paid by individuals taxes on business in lar ge part must be recovered in the prices charged for goods and ser vices however since state and lo 10 cal government has become dent upon business taxes for sub ly more than half of the cost of financing public services the ma ingance of sound government fian ces depends to that extent upon gro ath of a healthy taxpaying commer cial and industrial investment in the state of utah the report also points out the pro blem posed for state and local gov by the high proportion of federal employment and federal property ownership in the utah ec ee onomy one out of four employed persons in utah works full tune time for some level of government federal state county city or school nearly half of these governmental workers are civilian employees of the fed eral government since all govern mental properties are exempt from taxation for state or local govern ment purposes it mea means ns that nearly one fourth of the families of utah are working for employers who pay no taxes since the direct taxes paid by individuals and families the ab sence of employer tax payments by employers of a major segment of the utah population from the state and local tax picture imposes a rel actively heavier burden upon the re segments of the economy in addition to the considerable proportion of the utah labor force farce employed by the federal govern ment the federal government also owns more than 71 per cent of the land area of the state of utah if payments were made by the federal government in lieu of taxes on fed brally owned properties in utah the financial stresses upon state and lo 10 cal government would be without need for expansion of fed eral aid programs and the object lonal anal federal controls that accod pany them some payments in lieu of taxes are made by the federal government especially for schools in military installation areas how a small part of what similar property investment in private ownership would pay |
