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Show Taxes here and in salt lake freparatoiy tu coukl?i inR The bud-j jet. for 1931, .Major Xeslen of Salt Lake City hag named a committee for the purpose oi analyzing the requests for appropriations from he various departments of ihai pity. On thai committee are the city auditor and fltiornpj lu Ogden the city auditor last year1 ias made an active niember of the budget committee and ncain ibis year he w ill be called .in to deal with all the expenditures asked for. a? j is his1 business to familiarize himself with 1 all the expenditures ' Salt Lake's city commissioners are making an effort to CUl down Lhe tax Lm rate from 11 mills to 10 mills. Las', j year Ogdeu's tax rate was three mills ! ltfs than that of Salt Lake. mum lhe whole tendency throughout the state Is to hold down taxes. Ogden was Lhe first city in Utah to inaugu-rate inaugu-rate this policy of economy, and last LM year it was the only municipality ., LM sue that did not increase Us tax rate Many people do not know how tax 9 rates are made. The state fixes a rate for state pur-LW pur-LW poses. The county applies a tax for county 9 purposes The county school board makes its The city school board fixes us lax rate for city school purposes. The city commissioner- determine Lm on ike tax rate necessary to defray the expenses of the city. Lm All these tax rates arc combined, and la?t year in Weber County totaled 30 mills, of which Ogden city asked tor only S.05 mills. When Ogden taxpayers in the fall of the year go to the county treasur-cr's treasur-cr's office, they generally say they are j LW P'-ying their city taxes As a matter Lm Of fact they are paying state, county, road, school and city taxes, all com bincd. |