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Show STATE REVENUE IN UTAH FiscaF Year Ended June B5T $8, 88i, to rS MT0R vehiclEvv;.x.;.V 9y'J OTHER Include Insurance Prtmium Tax, $987,727; Cigarette Tax, $930, 787j other Department and Inttl tulionreee, $818,503; Interest and Rentele of Land Grant Fundi, $665,515; Oleomargine Tax, $587,897; Special Liquor (School Lunch) Tax, $487,248; Inheritance Tax, $309,807; Beer Tax, $288,408; Agricultural Department Taxes, $270,660; Vocational School Tetf, $148,455; Protest and Suspense Taxes, $126,321; Court Fines, Fees and Reporter Fees, $35, 150; County Contributions to Welfare, $25, 519; and Miscellaneous Receipts, $1,872,217. Prepared by UTAH FOUNDATION ;? -if Note Increase in State Revenues Editor's note: This is one of a series of charts and explanatory articles prepared by the Utah Foundation, a non-profit, private tax research agency established to encourage the study of taxation taxa-tion and the relationships of governmental costs to the economy econo-my of Utah. Foundation reports will be sent without charge to any citizens of Utah upon request re-quest to the Utah Foundation. Darling Bldg., Salt Lake City, Revenue of the Utah State' government for the fiscal year1 ended June 30, 1951, totaled $77,. 652,931, or approximately $9,600,-000 $9,600,-000 more than the amount collected col-lected during the preceding fiscal year. Sales tax revenues increased in-creased $2,300,000 and revenue from income taxes (both individual individ-ual and corporate) increased $2,-200,000 $2,-200,000 during this same period. Smaller increases were noted in almost every other state revenue source. The sales and use taxes continue con-tinue to be the largest single source of state revenue, accounting account-ing for $16,300,000 or 21 of total state revenue in fiscal 1951. Federal Fed-eral grants-in-aid were $13,900,-000 $13,900,-000 or 17.8 of the total, and motor vehicle taxes, (gasoline, registration and others) amounted amount-ed to $11,200,000 or 14.5 of the total. Other revenue sources include in-clude Income taxes (individual and corporate) $8,900,000 (11.4) general property tax, $6,800,000, (8.7); liquor profits, $3,700,000, (4.8); unemployment compensation compen-sation tax, , $3,400,000 ( 4.4); college fees,' $3,400,0000 ( 4.4); mine occupation . tax, $1,400,000, (1.8); fish and game license fees, $1,000,000 (1.3), and other taxes, licenses, fees and collections, collec-tions, $7,600,000 (9.7). In the tabulation of total state i revenues, non-revenue receipts have been eliminated whenever it was practical to identify them from available records. It is believed be-lieved that'the resulting net revenue rev-enue figures more accurately reflect re-flect the amounts available for expenditure than do total gross state receipts. For example, this tabulation does not consider gross liquor sales as a revenue, but only the net liquor profits are Included in the Revenue computations |