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Show PERSONAL INCOME TAX BILL IS PASSED ON LAST DAY OF LEGISLATIVE SESSION The Ninulccnth Utah legislature passed the personal income tax bill on the final day of the session. The personal income tax bill carries car-ries a maximum rate of 4 per cent, offsets of thirty-three and one-third per cent, a .$1 filing fee which must be paid by all adults, save only married mar-ried women who have no independent independ-ent main source of income. The corporation franchise tax biil which was passed by the legislature legis-lature proposes: that corporations shall be taxed for their privilege of doing business in TJtah, at a flat raie of three! per cent of their net income, and that they shall be allowed al-lowed to offset not to exceed one-third one-third of such franchise tax by a like amount of taxes they may pay on tangible property in this state. Income only from business done within the state, so far as may be allocated by the formula written into in-to the law, is to be taxed, and taxes tax-es may be paid in two installments, ' three months apart. The federal income in-come tax setup is the basis of the machinery provided for administering adminis-tering the Utah tax passed on income. in-come. Several minor tax laws having to do with the powers and- duties of the tax commission were enacted. This completes the major tax program and puts into effect the constitutional amendments as voted on by the people of the state in the last election. The school equalization bill as passed by the legislature will increase in-crease gradually from $147,000 for the school year of 1932-33 to five times that amount for the fifth school year thereafter. The legislature received one-htin-dred-eighty-one bills from its members mem-bers and approximately seventy of these met with approval. This is a low record in number of measures to be passed by a session and at the same time more fundamental changes were made in the laws of the state than has been made by any previous meeting of the lawmakers. law-makers. More than one-third of house bills introduced during the sixty-day sixty-day session were killed on the last day. Among the bills slaughtered were those which would enable county commissioners to raise extra levies for unemployment relief, and a bill by Representative George M. Miller of Carbon county calling for an outright aproprhition of $100,0(10 fur unemployment relief, the bill for a tax on natural gas, and a tax on bill boards. Senate bill 36, by John E. Booth, authorizing cities and towns to ap-point-snude tree commissions; senate sen-ate bill W', George Jefferson, enabling enabl-ing counties to establish levies of oue-teuth of a' mill for the care of indigent blind, and senate bill 43, Knox Patterson, enabling chiropractors chiroprac-tors to take industrial commission cases were pasted. Senate joint resolution No. 5, Burton Bur-ton W. Musser, which the house adopted, ad-opted, is known as the "home rule" bill and enables incorporated cities and towns to establish, by consent of the people, any type of government govern-ment they desire. Under the present pres-ent law it is specified as to what type of government cities of different differ-ent sizes shall operaate under, met with approval. The bill as it came from the senate sen-ate limited this power to cities having hav-ing 5000 inhabitants or more. The house amended this to read "any incorporated in-corporated city or town," and the amendment was concurred in by the senate. -"e-,v laws as enacted by the legis-la'.ure legis-la'.ure and signed by the governor include some items of interest as follows : IS, Booth, transferring board of equalization funds to state tax eoni-missk.n eoni-missk.n ; 4, Keyser, requiring flying of flag at polling places ; 17, Shields, providing for railroad crossing device de-vice ; 1 Fowles, transferring land to Ogden for park purposes ; 40, Shields, licensing auctioneers ; 20, Musser, pertaining to mutual fire insurance in-surance companies ; 22, Shields, anti-nepotism ; 34, Welling, licensing aircraft pilots. Bills passed by the senate: H. B. 41, Fuller General appropriations. appro-priations. S. B. 104, Fowles Bad checks. Senate concurs in house amendment. amend-ment. S. B. 114, Candland Corporation franchise tax. Conference report recommitted for correction. Amended Amend-ed report presented and adopted and bill repassed. H. B. 4, Mills Legislative vacancies. vacan-cies. Amended and passed. II. B. 72, Anderson Reapportionment. Reapportion-ment. Amended and passed. H. B. 102, Woodruff Banks to sell real estate. II. B. 130, committee Legislative code commission. S. B. 109, Fowles Board of supplies sup-plies and purchase. S. B. 21, Maw Chiropody. Senate Sen-ate concurs, bill repasses. H. B. 27, Jorgensen Gasoline tax increase. H. B. 47, Xeslen Military code. Senate amends and repasses. S. B. 91, Booth Juvenile courts. Senate concurs in house amendments amend-ments by party vote of 11 to "J ; bill repassed. H. B. 65, committee School equ alization. |