| Show I II 20 PER rE Gr CENT T OF or I TUXES TAXES I GO TO Tn I STATE SCHOOLS Three State Stale Institutions Hereafter Hereafter Here Here- after Will Receive Direct Appropriations Appropriations Ap Ap- from Taxes From rom General State Stale Property T By ar ac art of rf the last legislature law which gave the University of Utah the Utah State Agricultural college and and the Branch Agricultural college an aggregate of 28 per cent of the proceeds of the state general property tax levy became Ineffective Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day July 1 Hereafter the entire public fund revenue of the three state institutions of higher is provided by the legislature from direct appropriation The authorities of the institutions preferred preferred preferred pre pre- to have a certain and fixed basis for their operations rather than the uncertain revenue that might ac accrue acv ac crue from the general property ta tax They were Influenced the more to this point of view when the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture decided that the general property proper proper- ty tax for state purposes should be de decreased decreased decreased de- de creased as the revenue from the In Income ii h- come taxes was increased This meant that the revenue re to the institutions if the 28 per cent ratio had been re retained retained retained re- re would be decreased The new condition of affairs however however however how how- ever brought up the question a as to whether the institutions should share In delinquent taxes from former years ears which are collected from time to time C Continued on Page Four 28 PER PElt CENT OF TAXES T. NOW GO TO STATE TE SCHOOLS Continued From Page One through payments or through sale o othe of the property effected In behalf of oC the university of Utah Dr George Thomas its president aske asked ask ask- e ed l Attorney General George P. P Parker Parke for an opinion on this point Mr Parker Wednesday signell an nn opinion prepared b by W. W A. A Hilton HUton assistant assistant as as- to the effect that the three state te institutions will continue t to share In an any revenues re from taxes imposed in former years rears a athose as those taxes ma may be collected Mr Parker goes a step farther Carther an and d tells Dr Thomas that the taxes for r 1931 are from a levy lery that Is not fixed d until August and therefore the th three ee Institutions can not share in the revenue revenue rev from these taxes even ln though h In one ono sense the taxes have been accruing accruing ac ac- erring for the past six Sl months However beginning Wednesday th thE e three Institutions are benefiting b bj y appropriations from the state genera fund for fr the biennium which bega begat 11 Wednesday |
