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Show Property Tax Here, as Elsewhere Increased 142 Mills Past Year Ogden passed Park City this year for the dubious distinction of having the highest tax rate in the state. The 1971 tax rate in Ogden is 111.92 mills ($111.92 per $1,000 assessed valuation), compared with 111.87 mills for Park City. A small section of Ogden which was annexed to the city several years ago has an even higher total levy-121.94 mills. Blanding, on the other hand, has the lowest levy among the major cities surveyed with an overall levy of 69.90 mills in 1971. A number of smaller communities com-munities and unincorporated areas in the state have even lower tax rates with the absolute lowest levy of 52.90 mills found in the unincorporated area of San Juan County. The total property tax levy imposed in Park City increased by 1.42 mills this year, according accord-ing to an analysis just completed com-pleted by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. organiza-tion. Park City's overall property tax levy in 1971 is 111.87 mills ($111.87 per $1,000 assessed val-j val-j uation). This compares with a total levy of 110.45 mills in 1970 and 107.23 mills in 1965. According to the Foundation study, the property tax rate in Park City has risen 25.7 since 19G0, 80.3 since 1950, and 116.8 i since 1940. The following tabulation shows the trend in Park City's total tax rate since 1940: YEAR MILL LEVY 1940 51-60 1950 62.05 1960 89.00 1965 107.23 1970 110.45 1071 118.87 Approximately 47.1 of the property taxes charged in Park City this year will go for school purposes. The Foundation report re-port shows that 44.0 of the property tax will go for municipal munic-ipal purposes, 8.9 for county purposes, and for special district purposes. A breakdown break-down of the 1971 property tax levy in Park City is shown by the following schedule: PURPOSE MILL LEVY Municipal 49.25 School 52.62 County 10.00 Special District . . . Total 1U.87 (Includes state school levy of 7.2 mills). Property tax rates rose in most Utah communities this year according to the Foundation Founda-tion report. A survey of 67 major Utah cities shows that total property tax rates increased in-creased in 54 cities, declined in only 6 cities, and remained unchanged in 7 cities. The overall average tax rate in the cities surveyed rose from 88 mills ($88.00 per $1,000 assessed valuation) last year to 89.41 mills in 1971. The average increase in the 54 cities with higher tax rates was 1.80 mills. The increases ranged up to 6.60 mills in Moab and 6.36inHeber City. All of the declines, on the other hand, amounted to less than one mill. Foundation analysts point out that the levy increases for this year are the largest since 1965. During the 1965-70 period, the mill levy increases in the 67 cities under review averaged only 0.5 per year. The increase in-crease for 1971 is equal to 1.6, or more than three times the average rate change of the past five years. Although the mill rate increase in-crease for 1971 is high by recent . standards, it is modest when compared with the 1950 to 1965 experiences. During this fifteen year period, the average levy for the 67 cities surveyed rose by 72, or an average of 3.7 per year. In addition to mill levy increases, in-creases, many taxpayers also experienced upward adjustments adjust-ments in their property valuations valua-tions under the continuing re--, appraisal program. Thus, the overall increase in taxes may be considerably greater than the percentage increase indicated in-dicated by the mill levy changes alone. The Foundation observed that |
