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Show 00 SCHOOL TAX LEW IN SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake. Aug. 11. The school tax-levy tax-levy for the Salt Lake school district will be 4.1S mills on tho dollar. This was announced yesterday after, although al-though unofficially, it was stated that iiu uiiiiugu 111 me assessea valuations of Salt Lake county will be made by the state board of equalization. Following Fol-lowing this information County Auditor Audi-tor Charles A. Weaver, County Treas. urer Raymond C. Naaylor and County Assessor A. H. Parsons met and fixed the school taax levies. Assessor A. H, Parsons has recommended that the county commission fix tho Salt Lako county tax levy, and this will be done today. Exclusive of the special road tax, the county levy will be fixed at 2.3 mills on the dollar. It is anticipated that the levy for the special road tax will be fixed at .62 of a mill on the dollar. This will make the total tax levy In Salt Lake City 18 mills on tho dollar, rnmnnnprl nc fnllnwq Ktntp. tax, 4.4 mills; county, 2.92 mills; school, 4.1S mills; city, 6.5 mills. With such a levy of 18 mills, the taxes of tho current year will be approximately ap-proximately 1.138 mills on the dollar higher than last year. Last year's tax was 41.50 mills on the dollar, which, according to Assessor A. H. Parsons, would be tho equivalent of 16.62 mills on the dollar in the city this year. Although Al-though tho valuations have been increased in-creased and maximum rates of lovy reduced, the change has not had tho effect of decreasing tho taxation necessary nec-essary for the reauired revenue. . The division of "tho county levy is expected to be 1,8 mlllB for general purposes; .3 of a mill for Indigents and charity and .2 of a mill for interest in-terest on bonds and sinking fund. Although Al-though a 1-mlll tax for road purposes was talked of, no determination has been reached. It is said, howover, that tho Idea of a 1-mill lew will be abandoned and that the road levy will not exceed .62 of a mill. Under a levy of 4.1S mills, the Salt Lake school district will receive a revenue of $710,180. Of this amount $594,649 will go for general school purposes and the remainder for interest inter-est and sinking fund purposes. The estimated requirements of the board of education total $1,084,000, and it is believed that with the revenue from the state and the city, as well as from other sources, tho needs of the board will be mot. |