Show RES ES PROVE inequality AA I 1 U 6 RAILWAYS T KAI is ff AlU q ESCAPE attles and the problem of 0 r c taxes tor for far farmers tarts home ismall mail town merchants wa as e discussed db cussed at the kiwanis tt night J K R st clarp arp waa wall of f ti evening and ajr or an of the laek lack of agreement ement oe evaluations valuations placed on pub y the various state author handle andle different phase a of f on r between the state and miles dies and the failure to tax i and other utilities irk 10 ac h ohp th law mr sharp at dr cally that he would not d of education to lower the us as that would be a blow ament amendale amen tale als of our govern i statement wae was roundly ap the Kiwon Kiwan lan ians and their sharp is peculiarly fitted eh A figures aa as ho be ha has done was wo for several years a missioner niss Iss ioner of carbon coun bee beef connected with coal ad a be la is now a heavy land toek ock raiser he lie take takes a vita all public matters lag ag the public utility sharp called especial athe fact that the railroads in carbon county ari the bounty alvayd getting the the method of arriving at i of the mines was severely it is 1 a haphazard way and r increasing the valuation over under the same meth te board of equalization SQ so ny time while the I 1 11 ig ving ahr sections of the its es on only d small per percent cent I 1 valuation the utah hall ail i 77 per cent of its actual i a case of the big corpor ig g the little ones to pay the esing public expense expenses by urs where it will do the thu declared the speak iti ame ir is not far distant if I 1 but wt remedied when the lita a ogas WB cuir to survivor sur e mr antion to the great A hidden amaty in G the luin ruin iu a carbon county by for pay no taxes lie ea timet one man was ayalde last year by the as ae with 10 in the eel i balanger pi aided sided during anil and he expressed the he club to mr for plan la atlon nation of the tax tua a 0 K clay expressed the it f the members in a p recta valuable information and nal mal motion for a vote of r sharp Ito it carried with I 1 8 evane evans IV E ander i elliott were received into in tile tie club among the john abu P F burton sam lot lof W J funk in the ra bureau business bue bus inest they t to the luncheon by mr made by mr sharp to the ty y farm bureau embodies A ho he said last night it tb le ty CY wa was assigned to me as an T tx committee to collect T ea OIL the taxation of the lu arty ty permit me we to submit ion la the two statements k llie bureaus ld inform fOrMAtion jitian it lowing slowing a oza coap arlson be and the assessed t even seven railroad railroads in utah it ond nd showing a tween the property of the ea ed by the county assessors and t ibe Is property t f the public utilities ae as assessed by the elate state board of equal Iza tion the first statement show shows that the capitalized value of the ald gala seven railroads as a filed in the office of the secretary of tate state totals and that the value assessed asse saed against the earne same seven railroads aU ail roads by the late state board of f 71 73 oo 00 such t represents only 10 16 per cent of the all bald property actual val wit altion ion in the Wat Vat ement it will bo be noted the total assessed valuation of the i property of the public utilities of this state for the year 1920 ie is of 0 this sum the assess ment of 73 00 again against the eald said even seven railroads represents 10 per cent the remaining 60 per cert is ther foe and represent represents the as eased sensed valuation placed by the state board of equalization upon the other railroads not included in the seven rail tail roada roads noted also of the street car eon com panics the interurban railways the power light and fraction and aud water companies the telephone and telegraph companies com paniel and sad postal telegraph and ca blo ble compan len fea the express and ear car corn paules and finally the mining compan les fes eoal coal and metal and net proceed proceeds alace the state board of equalization doek dock not assess the properties of the public utilities of the state a as the prop erty ui or the people is assessed viz at its actual value it may way reasonably be assumed that they avoid avold inequalities at least in peir assessment of the pub lie utilities property which comes under their jurisdiction jurisdiction on this assumption then I 1 make the b following deduction viz that ra tho seven railroad railroads named above representing 40 per cent of the total public utilities of the state are assessed by br tho state board of equalization at and are capitalized at it then the remaining CO 30 per cent of the public utilities named above and assessed asse sd by the state sate board of equalization at must by the law of equality have a proportionate actual value of 00 thus showing that the actual value of all the public utilities of the state la is as their assessed valuation for the year 1920 Is I 1 again sustaining the as of the state board of equalization in assessing the batee states public utilities at per cent of their actual value or barring this assumption there remains only this amazing alternative that the difference between the ass assessed eased and the actual valuation of the prop erty of the public utilities of the state P is absolutely and untaxed it is an amount greater by than the total assessed valuation of all the property of the state combined and added to that total assessed kalua tion would place the total actual aaion of all the property ut of the state at instead of as represented by the state board of equal in its report for the year 19 10 nor in the matter of equalization alano alone are the people being mulct mulet in the tax levy too is seen A multiplier of their loss As per the second statement attached atta hed it will be noted that in 1915 the year prior to the enactment of the law pro viding for the assessment of all prop city ft t its full value the state tax levy was nine nino mills in 1016 1916 when the law became opera tive and the thereby reby the total assessed vali val nation of the states property had risen from 21 7 millions to millions millton a the th co on a page foar four FIGURES PROVE PROW SIG BIG TAX inequalities continued from pape pare one levy waa was reduce 1 to 0 5 0 mill mills in 1917 when the total assessed val nation arcee by 61 millions did the levy drop no 0 o on tic the con arary it we was raised I 1 11 I 1 milla in 1919 when the total assessment mia was increased by 83 65 millions did the state tax levy fall no 0 o it wae was raised 2 of a mill in 1919 after a rate raise of IS 15 n lillions the state tax levy till still rose 3 of a mill will ani 1 I 1 in 1020 when the total assessed aas essed allou stood at millions a as against million millions in 1915 or had in creased by three abree times he a value 1 while the state tax levy atoo tool I 1 stationary yet in tho the following year 1921 the state tax levy as raised 14 1 4 mill mills or stood at only I 1 of 6 mill belov below tho the levy im ira posed fl I 1 1015 1913 it will he noted too that in I 1 AS a per the he second sta temerl attached is 1 recorded the only deere decrease ase in assess merit since the law of full values was enacted ell acted in that year the state board of equalization had seen fit reduce their as a se ee ement of the public utilities property by a a compared with the the previous pre vione year a and while the a mad merit against the people peoples property fil a the ume year had taken on iti its ing increase inere aeo amounting to there had been added to thie this increases that lourd own deficit in the utilities assessment eMment eis inaki i the total assessment against the property for that year 1 and thie this injustice hiu atie if they assume equality in ill the asses assets ament f meat of the pro property A nerty uble bax their jurl juri diction in the face of tho the alarming afa fact et that they are preserving exempt from and taxation 0 like property of the public utilities of the state amounting to it was my ge to serve as an one of its members i a the board of county of carbon cou cofty lity as ia clr ithe term to lulo jults id via ae as itch arem ir era bet I 1 recollect meeting rel gedly with the state board of equalization in coa con ference upon the advisability viability ad of f the law the assel of ell all property at its it full then being prepared pre parea by the state board of equalization for to the tile state I 1 recollect too that the ali proposal prop osil was received sueh variel varlet opinion at uch conferee Vs and I 1 rw ret alt too that euch such varied opinion was mas finelly fin illy llly harmon only upon the sol 1 em dmn assurance of the state boord of equalization equalization that if the I 1 I 1 diwi aw wore were enact maciel el lien then the balei lev ie to fo the tile states ante elev antl county taxes would art j p to 13 12 mill mills since that 1 assar anve wd was rl div en I 1 have een seen the tc 1 vv of 0 one a t town own 14 colison comaty raised to 14 millo hot including Sac ludins bounty kv nv rs ali h I 1 alf te wre for that ahlo or ing in i i li if a jonil bitton li is too preat it ir t I 1 iain tn nt tek ok ellowe aim al mal I 1 nt wt me farda be submitted to ti tin stat tt feria farm bura and that ye to co with tji abet bu rea reau in st bring euring thy the dennial of the tate state board of ft rr lh tha year years 1031 and ion for the hf purpose of oil this data blown to date I 1 realize that th of one tonn roun ty farm bureau at uh Inja ill a Is fu ful file tile but I 1 ara am eure sure that the pro tiet of oil mil the brunty farm bureaus 13 it by the state farm bureau will clisi co aai the tax of to take heed beed |