Show Property Tax Over Million Here in 1966 SUMMIT COUNTY COUNTY- Owners of commercial and In Industrial Industrial industrial In- In property paid or per cent of the total property taxes charged In Summit Summit Sum Sum- mit County during 1966 This compares with property taxes lot of Or 1472 per cent of the total tota on residential property property prop prop- erty lerty or per centon cent centon Ion on motor vehicles passenger pi Automobiles and trucks and 1583 per cent on agricultural agricultural agri agri- I cultural property farm real estate farm buildings machin machine machinery ery cry and livestock These were some of or the facts brought out in an analysis of I II I the distribution of the property I tax burden prepared by Utah Foundation the private nonn non 1 non non-I I profit prout tax research organization For the state as a whole the I analysis showed that 51 1 perI per percent I cent of total property tax burI bur tour I den was borne by owners of commercial and Industrial property prop prop- I erty 34 9 per cent by residential I I II I property owners 74 per cent centI I I by owners of motor vehicles I and 5 57 7 per cent by agricultural I pi property owners I The Foundation report indicates indi cates sates that total property taxes I charged in Summit County during dur dur- ins ing 1966 1988 amounted to 1 This represented an increase of or 4 96 per cent from the 1965 1985 total and was or of per cent above the level of 01 1960 Throughout the state property property property prop prop- erty taxes rose 22 32 per cent between be between between be- be tween 1965 and 1966 and increased in increased in- in creased per cent since 1960 |