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Show Utah Foundation Report says taxes up ' of levies that were temporarily tem-porarily lowered when these districts were reappraised under the continuing assessment program. Under Utah law, operating levies for school purposes are reduced when reappraised valuations are first place on the tax rolls. These reductions reduc-tions are phased back in over a three-year period. According to the Foundation Foun-dation study, no new counties were reappraised in 1977. As a result, there were no further reductions in school levies this year resulting from the revaluation program. As indicated, however, a number of school distircts which were reappraised in recent years had their operating levies raised under the automatic "phasing' in" provisions of Utah law. Prior to this year, the first round of the property reappraisal program had been completed in 25 of Utah's 29 counties. Work in the four remaining counties (Carbon, Salt Lake, San pete, and Sevier) is expected to be completed this year, and the new assessed valuations in these four counties should be placed on the tax rolls in 1978. The Foundation analysis of tax rates throughout the state shows that 7 counties raised their levies, 11 counties reduced their levies, and 11 counties made no change. Of the 40 school districts in Utah, 24 districts had higher levies, only 2 had lower levies, and 14 districts made no change. Thirty-three Thirty-three municipalities (cities and towns) increased their levies in 1977. Of these, two were new towns that imposed im-posed a levy for the first time this year. Thirteen Utah cities and towns reduced their levies this year, while 173 municipalities made no change. The total property ua m.v imposed for city, county, school, and other purposes in Cedar City rose by 3.51 mills this year, according to an analysis prepared by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. . Cedar City's overall property tax levy in 1977 is 65.94 mills ($65.94 per $1,000 assessed valuation). This compares with a total levy of 62.43 mills last year. Following is a tabulation showing the trend in Cedar City's total rate in selected years since 1950: Year Total Mill Levy 1950 60.20 1960 69.70 1970 86.75 1975 89.10 1976 62.43 1977 65.94 Approximately 63.7 percent of total property taxes charged in Cedar City will go for school purposes. The Foundation report indicates in-dicates that 19.7 percent of the property tax collected in Cedar City will go for municipal purposes, and 16.5 percent for county purposes. pur-poses. A comparison of the 1976 and 1977 levies in Cedar City by purpose is as follows : Purpose 1976 1977 Municipal 13.00 13.00 School 38.53 42.04 County 10.90 10.90 Spec.Dist. none TOTAL 62.43 65.94 The F oundatic &amintion of 1977 mill rates imposed in the 69 largest cities of the state reveals that the overall property tax rate increased in 49 cities, declined slightly in 17 cities, and remained unchanged in 3 cities. The total average levy in these 69 cities climbed from 75.46 mills ($75.46 per $1,000 assessed valuation) in 1976 to 78.48 mills in 1977, a rise of 3.02 mills or 4 percent. Most of the increase in the property tax levy this year occurred in the levy imposed for school purposes. Foundation analysts emphasize em-phasize that a substantial part of this increase in school levies resulted from the " phasing-i Ml |
