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Show Report reveals Utah's tax bite same as others Taxes, taxes, taxes. A good deal of recent conversation con-versation in Cedar City has been centered on taxes and their rise in our lives. Recently the Utah Taxpayers Assocation, a nonprofit non-profit non-partisan research and lobbying organization, published a comparison of Utah taxes, as they relate to other states in the union. Some of the findings were: In state and local tax collections per $1,000 of personal income during fiscal year 1975, Utah ranked 27, with a $116.29 J figure. The U.S. average of all 50 Ostates plus the District of jj Columbia was $122.84. j Per capita state and local tax collections for fiscal 1975 were $505.96, which ranked 43 on a Idescending scale. The U.S. average was $663.77. New York state was the highest with $1,025.09 going to taxes. Per capita personal income in 1975 in Utah was $4,923, 40th in the nation. The U.S. average was $5,902. Alaska had the highest per capita income ($9,448) and Mississippi had the lowest ($4,052). In the category of percentage of personal income remaining after state and local taxes, Utah ranked 21, above the national average of 89.19, with 89.72. Utah ranks 37th, $151.80, in property tax collections per capita, which figures out to be $34.89 per $1,000 of personal income in 1975. Per capita sales tax collection in Utah amounted to $144.61, 12th in the nation. This figures to be $33.24 to $1,000 of personal income, in-come, the 8th highest in the nation. |