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Show Tax Reduction Held Doubtful Washington There will probably not be a tax reduction In 1D27 so far as Salt Lake City is concerned, in the opinion of Alvln Keddington; city auditor, au-ditor, expressed after a week of budgeting bud-geting by the city budget committee, consisting of the city commissioners and himself. The committee has set to work to reduce requests of depart-men depart-men heads by $400,000, to provide for a budget $100,000 below the expected revenue and thus have a comfortable emergency surplus. Some departments have been given a preliminary trimming; trim-ming; some major departments have not yet been consdiered, while In no department has the committee finished fin-ished slicing, according to the auditor, and the result to dtte has been a cut of about $75.0000. |