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Show Sales Tax Ordinance Paves Way for New Revenue The County Commissioners on May 25th adopted a one-half cent sales and use tax ordinance as allowed by the 1939 Legislature. Legisla-ture. When the law was passed, Iron County did not take advantage advan-tage of this new law as it was felt that this revenue was not needed insofar as Iron County is concerned. The Commissioners still feel the same way. The law provides, however, that cities and towns in the County can take advantage of this new law by adopting the one-half per cent sales tax, but before cities and towrts can do so, the County must first adopt the law. Complicated Process Cedar City Corporation recently requested the County Commissioner Commis-sioner to adopt this law so that Cedar City could do so. Unless the County adopts the new law, Cities and towns, for whom the law was originally passed by the leglslatnre, could not take advantage ad-vantage of this new law. There- j fore, although the County Com- missioners feel there is no need for this additional tax insofar as Iron County is concerned, they have reluctantly adopted the sales tax ordinance only so that I the municipalities m?y do so. I Parnwan has crivon enma indication indi-cation that it will adopt the law and also Paragonah. The law further fur-ther provides that if municipali-ties municipali-ties adopt this new tax, the mo-1 ney so collected will ccme to the municipality and not to the coun- j 1 ty. Therefore, if Cedar City, Paragonah Par-agonah and Kanarra adopt the new tax for sales within their respective communities, the amont of the tax on sales in Iron County outside of the corporate cor-porate limits of the four incorporated incor-porated communities would be so small that the Commissioners feel that it would not be worth the bother and expense. The new law takes effect as of July 1st. Mowevei1, after the incorporated cities and towns have taken advantage of the law, Iron County could then repeal I its ordinance, taking Iron County completely out of the picture but leaving the one-half per cent tax in the cities and towns which adopt the new law. County May Drop Law There is a strong possibility that after the first three months, the County will not continue the law. Iron County is in the enviable position of having no bonded indeptedness or other in-tieptness in-tieptness and operates entirely entire-ly on current revenues. Although the county levies and keeps less than one-tenth of the fotal tax levy on property in the county, it has been and still is sufficient. |