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Show Delegation Asks Lowering of Proposed Tax Valuation; Blanket 10 percent Increase, with Dry Farms 25 percent Tuesday a delegation of Millard Counly men, M. Ward Moody, Harold Har-old Morris, A. O. Gardner, C. E. Freer, Dudley Crafts, Eldon Elia-son, Elia-son, Mark Johnson, Claude Robins and Roy Robins, met with the State Tax Commission over the proposed increase in Millard County assessed assess-ed valualions. The State Tax Commission Com-mission had proposed a blanket 10 per cent increase in tax valuation throughout the state with higher valuations in some areas. As stated stat-ed by Chairman J. Lambert Gibson the utilities of Utah were over-valued and real estate was undervalued, under-valued, and it was the desire to bring them more into line. Millard County was scheduled for a blanket 10 per cent raise on all real estate with dry farm land and irrigated lands a 25 per cent raise in valuation. No raise was proposed in the personal property classification. The delegation met with the commission and asked that the proposed 25 per cent raise be lowered low-ered to 10 per cent. The commission commiss-ion took the matter under advisement advise-ment and on Wednesday called the County Assessor, Claude Robins, to state that after consideration irrigated irri-gated lands would remain at the 10 per cent increase as proposed, but that the dry farm lands would be increased 25 per cent in valuation. valua-tion. The dry farm lands affected are at present assessed at $164,368 and to this will be added the additional increase. The real estate affected affect-ed by this 10 per cent increase are valued at present at: Irrigated lands $1,217,930 City lots 314,605 Unimproved farms 24,510 Grazing lands 288,870 All other 24,815 The original increase in valuation valua-tion would have amounted to $405, 853. With the commission lowering lower-ing the increase in valuation on irrigated ir-rigated lands to the 10 per cent, the increase in valuation in Millard County will amount to $223,164, or a saving of $180,000 in round figures, fig-ures, that the delegation will save to Millard County. The County Commissioners will meet next week to determine the levies and it will not be until then that the actual increase in taxes can be told, and how much this increase in-crease will affect Millard County. |
