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Show School Financing Property Taxes Double in Decade Salt Lake City, Dec. 6 Property Proper-ty taxes charged for school district dis-trict purposes in Utah have more than doubled in the past 10 years, is is revealed by the state tax commission. For the school year ended in 1941 school proper-ty proper-ty taxes were less than $10 million, mil-lion, while 10 years later they were close to $23 million. Ten years ago, about $7 out of every $8 of school revenue receipts re-ceipts came from the tal on property. prop-erty. Now the proportion is about $2 out of S3. How the minimum school program, pro-gram, authorized by popular vote in 191G, is working out, in so far as it affected the property tax, is the subject of a somewhat detailed de-tailed study made in the tax commission offices. The program has helped some so-called "poor" districts, undoubtedly. It is helping help-ing other districts that are not in great need of such assistance. They are "rich" enough to take care of their own problems. Other "poor" districts no because be-cause of the minimum school program, perhaps, but rather in spite of it find themselves in much worse condition, from the standpoint of the property tax payer, than they were before the minimum school system was put in operation by the 1947 legislature. leg-islature. How your district is faring, in comparison with others that have problems similar to yorurs, may be ascertained from the report of this study perhaps somewhat more readily than from the reports re-ports of the state school office on which the study was largely based. You are welcome to a copy of the report, which is entitled "The Minimum School Program and the Property Tax", if you will address your request to the state tax commission, 118 State Capitol, Salt Lake City. |