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Show i PROPOSED TAX AMENDMENTS Voters Should Study the Six Important Amendments to Be Voted On at the Polls this Coming Fall. I With a view to educate the taxpayers tax-payers of the state on the several constitutional amendments to be voted vot-ed on at the coming fall election, advocates ad-vocates of the amendments are already al-ready in the field giving taxpayers some real information, pro and con, to the results that will follow if the program is put over. Following are six of the proposed amendments that are to be submitted to the voters: I. Prison Removal This amendment as proposed does away with the limitation in the present pre-sent constitution which, states that the prison shall be located in Salt Lake County. II. Legislative Vacancies., This proposed amendment permits the legislature to fill vacancies in the legislature in such manner as it may determine instead of making it obligatory obli-gatory to call a special election, as provided under the present constitution. constitu-tion. It reads as follows: "Vacancies that may occur in either eith-er house of the legislature shall be filled in such manners as may be provided pro-vided by law." , III. State Tax Commission. I "There shall be a State Tax Commission Com-mission consisting of four members, not more than two of whom shall belong be-long to the same political party. The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, for such terms of office as may be provided pro-vided by law. The state Tax Commission Com-mission shall administer and supervise super-vise the tax laws of the State. It shall assess mines and public utilities and adjust and equalize, the valuation and assessment of property among the several counties. It shall have such other powers o original assessment assess-ment as the Legislature may provide. Under such cases and within such j limitations as the Legislature may prescribe, it shall establish systems of public accounting review proposed bond issues revise the tax levies and budgets of local governmental units, and equalize the assessment and Valuation Val-uation of property within the counties. coun-ties. The duties imposed upon the State Board of Equalization by the Constitution and Laws of this state shall be performed by the State Tax Commission. "In each county of this State there shall be a County Board of Equalization Equaliza-tion consisting of the Board of County Coun-ty Commissioners of said county. The County Board of Equalization shall adjust and equalize the value and assessment of the real and personal property within their respective counties subject to such regulation and control by the State JTax Commission Com-mission as may be prescribed by law. The State Tax Commission and the i County Boards of Equalization shall each have such other powers as may (be prescribed by the Legislature." VI. Revised Tax Plan. 1. Classification of property into tangible and intangible. "All tangible property in the state, not exempt under the laws of the jUnited State, or under this Constitution, Constitu-tion, shall be taxed in proportion to (its value, to be assertained as provided pro-vided by law. The property of the United State, of the State, counties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal munici-pal corporations, and public libraries, lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively .for either religions worship wor-ship or charitable purposes, and places plac-es of burial not held or used for private pri-vate or corporate benefit, shall be lexempt from taxation. V. Mine Tax. "All metalliferious mines or mining min-ing claims, both placer and rock in place, shall be assessed as the Legislature Leg-islature shall provide; provided the I basis and multiple now used in deter-j deter-j mining the value of metalliferous mines for taxation purposes and the , additional assess-ed value of 55.00 per acre (hereof shall not he changed before January 1. 1935, nor thereafter thereaft-er until otherwise provided by law. All other mines or mining claims and other valuable mineral deposits, including in-cluding lands containing coal or hy-'drocarbons hy-'drocarbons and all machinery used in mining and all property or surface j improvement upon or appurtenant to mines or mining claims or mining property for other than mining purposes, pur-poses, shall be assessed as other tangible property. VT. More Money For Schools. "And in addition an equalization fund which when added to other revenues re-venues provided for this purpose by the legislature shall be S5.00 for earh person of school age as shown by the last preceding school census; said equalization fund shall be apportioned ap-portioned to the school districts in such maimer as the Legislature shall prbvids." |