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Show j Foundation Reports j Utah Tax Appraisal ! System Inadequate j lit-ont !iu;i:,U ,.t classifying j and :v;ior::..' t,i revenues do I not iuuide the information needed need-ed to make ,i sound appraisal i of the tax .-; Mem in I tali, it iwr-; rev -a!i' ! . ;av i, a report released by ih Foundation, the private non-profit tax research organization. It is virtually im-.wssihle im-.wssihle to determine what pro. portion of state and local taxes , is paid by each of the various economic segments in Utah from 'available state reports and records, rec-ords, the Foundation stated. The Foundation report pointed out that the lack of meaningful statistical data concerning the property tax, the state income tax, the retail sales tax and the several other taxes imposed by the state has seriously hampered previous studies made of taxes and the tax system in Utah. It was suggested that competent compet-ent experts familiar with Utah's assessing and tax collection methods devise practical and informative in-formative classifications for the respective taxes as a prerequi-site prerequi-site to appraising the equity of Utah's present tax system. Besides providing valuable information in-formation about the tax system, tax information, properly classified classi-fied ai.ci tabulated, would have a myriad of uses in many different differ-ent types of governmental, social and economic problems, the report re-port stated. Utah Foundation analysts also discussed the recommendations of the 60-man Public School Survey Sur-vey Commission with respect to the improvement of property tax assessment practices in Utah. Specifically, the School Survey Commission recommends that all l property in Utah be re-appraised at least once every five years on a continuous county-by-county basis. In line with the recommendations recommenda-tions of the School Survey Commission, Com-mission, the State Tax Commission Commis-sion and the Governor have recently re-cently announced plans for the employment of additional workers work-ers in the Tax Commission. These new employees will be trained as field appraisers and will main-1 tain a continual check on asses-seld asses-seld valuations and will reassess all pioperty each five years. |