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Show State. Federal Aid to Iron County Amounts to $18.22 for Every Person Residents of Cedar City would have to pay an additional property prop-erty tax of 7.53 mills ($7.5.3 per $1,000 assessed valuation) if the amount of state aid provided to local units of government (luring (lur-ing 1!)00 had been raised by a local lo-cal property tax. This fact was outlined in u research re-search report on state aid in Utah Just completed by Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit nonpro-fit tax research organization. According to the Foundation study, state aid to the Iron County Coun-ty School District last year was equivalent to a 2.12 mill local' property tax levy. State aid going to Iron County would amount to a 1.67 mill property levy. New total state aid distributed to all units of government in Iron County last year amounted to $19;,r)t2, or $18.22 for every man, woman and child residing in the county. Iron County ranked 28th among the 29 Utah counties in the total amount of state aid received re-ceived per capita. The report observes that financial fi-nancial aid totaling $15.2 million mil-lion was provided by the State to 10 school districts, 29 counties, coun-ties, and 21 X" cities and towns during the 1900 fiscal year. Nearly Near-ly 90 of this total state aid went to local school districts, with cities and towns getting ".('; and counties 4.5',; of the total. In addition to the state money allocated to local governments, the report notes that the State collected and distributed $3.2 million in locally imposed taxes (local sales tax and car and bus company tax) plus $3.7 million in Federal funds to local units during fiscal 10. Direct Federal Fed-eral aid -allocations to local units in Utah amounted to an additional addi-tional $1.2 million last year. Thus total allocations by the state and the Federal Gov ernments to j local units in Utah was equal to! $."().3 million, which amount was! approximately 75' r as much as! was collected in local property taxes by these local governments In 19(50. Foundation analysts observe that between 1916 and 1959, state grants-in-aid increased 311 in jutah and 308 in the nation as a whole. During the period 1950 through 1959, state aid to local governments rose nearly 600 (seven -fold Increase) in Utah and 408 in the United States. The Foundation study attributes attrib-utes the expansion in state aid programs during and since World War II to the greatly stepped-up programs for the public schools a to the resistance that has been built up against the property prop-erty tax. A constitutional question regarding re-garding the legality of some of the state aid programs in Utah is raised In the study. The report re-port points out that the Utah State Constitution states that "the Legislature shall not Im pose taxes for the purpose of any county, city, town or other municipal muni-cipal corporation ..." According Accord-ing to the Foundation report, the constitutionality of several of the state aid programs now opcr-ting opcr-ting In Utah has never been tested test-ed in the courts of the State. |
