Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-22 | Page 8 | Dee Estate Pays State $21,475,03

DE ESTATE PAYS STATE inheritance TAX commission LOWER VALUATION met yesterday and cit appraisement from thursdays standard the amount that the estate of the late thomas D de will pay to the state of utah under the state inheritance tax law is Is 5 percent of the valuation of the property less the same percent on the 10 which is exempt the county inheritance tax commissioners met yesterday afternoon with judge H H C 0 richards and arthur C pratt le presenting the aco estate and attorney breeden representing the state for the purpose of fixing the valuation of the property and assessing the amount due on the inheritance tax the of the dee estate contended that the valuation of the property of the deceased both real and had been placed at too high a valuation and after carefully going over the list of security ti ea owned by judge dee at the time of ats death the commissioners changed the figures made by the assessors cutting the assessed valuation of the property 46 the total valuation of tho property a given by the in the report which they filed frith the county clerk was the valuation as agreed upon by the representatives of the state and the heirs places the valuation of the estate at under the state inheritance tax law all estates above are subject to a tax of 5 percent or the assessed valuation less the which is not assessed after fixing the amount to be paid by the dee estate the commissioners and attorney general breeden took up the consideration of the tax on the thomas kurtz estate they did not complete their deliberations erat ions last evening and the amount of the tax to be paid by the kurtz estate will be announced today