Show NEW NW TAX IN THIS STATE The me chamber oC o commerce ot of Salt Lake and the ilio bankers as asso associations o of Utah have issued A statement nt in opposition to the proposed concurrent amending the state slate so as to provide for the lion tion ot of o property for pur purposes poses and the Increase of ot the per capita tax from froni 25 25 5 to 35 for tor each child of o sChool age tn the state As Aa to the school tax the statement points out one Fifty and five tenths per percent percent percent cent of o alt all the moneys raised by byway byway way IY of oC taxes In t the tin state of ot Utah go to the schools for purposes at the present time lime Utah Ulah Is a 3 a Email small state she Is en- en enga en engaging ga In a good many luxuries chief o ot of which is according to the aforesaid educational survey report one ot of the most expensive educational lonal systems of oc of any state In the union considering her wealth being third forty almost at the bottom In Industry and third from front the top in education Her ter tax lax burden has grown In lu the last ten years from Crom In 1916 to a total ot of in inI I 1926 This Increase has not been in proportion to Utah's increase either in population or in wealth for during this same year ten pe- pe pe period nod the per capita tax tn has In created In-created creased from 2008 OOS to If H C R n No o 6 Is li passed and carried Int effect It will mate mate- materIally materially natty rais raise the t tax x for state pur purposes poses pases In every everT elt city and county In Inthe inthe Inthe the state of Utah tah Under Buch uch circumstances the farmers of ot thIs tate late ought not to be misled Into believing that there is any hope fot fOI ot of o their taxes tues either by the raising of ot the per capita tax or by hy an amendment provid providing ing log for classification ot of property for taxation purposes Answering the argument that taxation would be made to pay taxes the statement says saye It It is declared by tho the support support- supporters supporters supporters ers of af classification that the dif dif- difference dif dif- difference ference between the assessed vat val valuation nation of af the property In thIs state ot of and the val rat value ue Jo of o the property In this state as reported In United States gov government of o Is by Intangible prop prop- property property property erty that would be subject ct to as- as as assessment under the property method This Is s not the fact for the very ery United States Slates government statistics from Iron which this total is taken show a on ton Ion of at real property properly and Improve Improve- improvements Improvements ments thereon alone alono ot of o being over aver the total II assessed valuation of oC all aU property in u this state ot of Utah S this same test to the other classes of af property properly listed in the govern govern- government government government ment statistics making up the grand total ot at leaves a very Iry small amount ot of o Intangible that might be te assessed In this state slate Much ot of the differ differ once between the total assessed alution of o the state and the total alue of at o properly property Was JIs as given glnn In the thel thet l t States government U II represented b by by farm property is today assessed at gt t ap ape approximately proximately froth from 40 40 l per er cent tent to 60 per cent of Its value value by by the of ot only sheep while the government statistics sh shOw w sheep by the as assessment ot of o less lees than one one halt half ot of be cattle which th the government show ar are in jn this state t 4 part of the Is Ia also represented by other Which is subject to taxation and assessment under the present I Ws It they were rigidly and and enforced Declaring that constant tax agi- agi agitation agi agitation tation does the state no good this advice is offered Until something concrete Is offered s appears to be be sub sub- manually aub-manually better belter than the present system ot of thil state ough not be asked to engage again in an nn agitation and discus discussion sion Ion regarding this proposed con constitutional amendment which has hasben ben boen before beCore the people of the state on au three previous occasions 1912 occasions 1916 o and and and which on each ench occaSion was as as emphatically ero reject ed eel with lIh Increasing votes each time Tax agitation does the state no good goad is unsettling to business interests provocative of o unrest and keeps out new capital which Is contemplating entering here What Utah needs moSt moh is not new I tax la laws 5 to raise more mOney but a stabIlIzed system ot of taxation which will encourage new capital to come Into the state to help bear the burden ot of o taxation It is generally conceded that taxes today rest lest too heavily on the tho home bome owners and some form lonn formo of relief relict should be devised devised- What What- Whatever Whatever ever changes chances are made should not nat bo be so to drastic as to prove alarming to the business Interests ot of the state and the objections ot of tM the bankers and businessmen business men gener gener- generally generally nil ally should be carefully cil ed before final action Is taken Thele Is la need for lor Improvement ement In Utah's tax lax system The ThO working out of a ft a b better tt r system should be through a conference of ot banker s man farmer larmer and small home owner In the ell city 00 00 a |