Show STATE TAXES TO BE HIGHER 1111 GHER THIS YEAR YER the state tax levy for the current year will pru bably be 7 a mills wills as corn com pared with the 7 71 1 mill mills loved last year and it appears now that the levy this year will be on an assessed kalua tiou of to ai as with the oooo on which it was made last year the lotice levies for tate state purless for tha th current year as an it appears now tow om pare pays with ith those of at last year as at lj 13 1 3 lows 1023 1022 mills mills wills state general furd 24 4 24 state ligh schools 2 2 state district schools 50 45 4 totals 70 71 ae As to the tate state general fund the tate state board has tor lot some time been leering seeking the beet best official information obtainable ax as to the probable needs of the state government for the cunert y arar sr it mut must be remembered that 28 per cent of the state general fund levy li is divid divided etl arong the three institutions of blaser education cAtIon supported up ported y th tato of utah the agricultural college at logan and the bran branch h agricultural college gt it cedar city the 28 8 per cent goci goes to belp elp the tile cur r rent ent expense or maintenance account of these respective institutions and ie Is helped 0 out ut by fees fee required of the stu denta dents the remaining 72 per cent of the 2 4 mill which la Is the highest rate permit ted by the state constitution for the tile state genera fund Is devoted to tile expense of tato government it 11 i helped out from various other sources iio uree mark tuttle state auditor and john 11 glenn aate state drector of finance aul purchase so navo been naked asked to their estimates of the states require aenid men tot or the current year the important lie item from the board of equalization point of view aas the figure 0 of f practically to be raised to tho the state general fa find in the next two years by the itral i property tax it need but a moment of balou lation to 1100 that estimating the state states assessed valuation at and avid fixing the general fund levy for the current year at tho the constitutional limit of 24 04 mills the total raised for 1923 would be of hb this the law mint must bo be set aalde for the maintenance of the three al 1 institutions leaving for the tate state general fund ono one half of the amount the auditor estimates as A nee net essary would be tl to so that the mit of general property tax may be considered as ll chort of the rt re quire ments for the year next year it is possible that the tte shortage thor tage may not be so 0 o large but wiit mitt probably be a eon ilder side ablo rabla amount fhe rho increase in the state tax will not come by reain reason of increased cost of state government but only became because the icat legislature required lt L i t the amount of tate 1 I aid sed for the hooli of the tate state hould should be to the constitutional limit of 25 p per er I 1 annum the 19 11 legislature fixed the state district school rato rate at 4 45 5 mills the 1923 legislature legle lature refuted refused to lit any such acl rate rates and thereby intentionally talle effective the 25 23 provi elon in the |