| Show wage salary earners pa pay y bulk of taxes SALT LAKE CITY L fx examination amIna of state stale individual 11 come tax returns for 1919 filed bast lat year by tile the use of tabulating machines recently installed by the tax commission makes possible sible tor for t the he first time reasonably accurate cal b hi or inda ul atlon ailon of ile IXL axi ome i om I 1 thi th bulk ol of 1114 h am weg ano and aln v ill biere ere ere r in thi chi 1 ilass the machines round found und and i i hile each i 15 fril ln paid on an average only state income ta tilt in ddll paid i or cla cia by tills this I 1 i cats total I 1 about 56 66 1 1 aunt of 01 tt some 2002 7 inda edrol whose main income was from business paid 33 percent ot of ehr tax rax or a total of their average being 67 the highest average rate came from professional men teachers below college grades being classed as salary earners ear nere there were 2758 such returns in the group examined and they paid a total ot of taxpayers whose chief source ot of income was from rom farm or liveston livestock ck raising paid only four percent of the total or some such andi contributed at an average rate ot of 12 each the ayite tax corn commissions missions tabulating machines showed that with lOi percent ot of the population ot of the state salt lake county residents paid 60 percent of the state individual income taxes weber county which had bad 12 percent of the state population in 1960 1950 according to the federal census produced about 13 percent of 0 the state in coine come tax revenue for the soh schools in every other county in utah the proportion ot of population was higher than the proportion of the individuals income tax reported the extreme was wayne county which with a census population ol of 2205 had only taxpayers among the returns examined they paid an average of only 6 in state tax 4 6 11 ll I 1 a I 1 L of 1 tn I 1 P plo dorting tin 11 to how an adf than two bedl de pen alent V the figure there re beld bel rak groag joe in by 1 l N aan i a jhb milt however olever t gro incie 0 we pu kane in alte with 12 21 J chen che the state gro e ierome anion anong 9 erg era 1 hown to bo be 13 1 corn report reporting ingI th he kz eritt e ia as san sana juan 1 in a lake county ana a V bpi be arid carbo h qt stat a average with 1321 0 r I 1 ahl proa d it with 3 moro than 31 per dere sus populate population 1 I of salt i ly mod hid returns andai ami a I 1 percent in web weber er count coun state n i a whole 2124 27 j the population filed r in san juan count county cent and in wayne 9 weber arbon carbon and TW too were the eniy anly one Pro proportion ul ui exceeded the tate state ar |
