Show f taxpayers association advises budget makers ii 1 calls the r attention to the upward all trend in taxation and asks them to consider the peoples ability to pay ix A from the utah 1 taxpayers payers association adar addressed essed tu to budget making ot of utah lk offers time timely ly suggest lopi it is s gy ven I 1 bere horwith horw wAth ith as to follows r you who are charged by law with athe the ot of making the 3 i budgets are now bus ly engaged in hait task in this th ls con 1 pe ovion may we call your to certain pertinent facts which hi should be talen tal en into consideration reb eforo budgets are adopted larf As you well know the only Ifo of 0 revenues to meet the ex iti ot of government must he 1 t through tax taxation adon in this kin jino inner ainner alone can funds be secured ilithe budget you yom are now consider ling determines ithe forth com iff tax zoad cload that loal load is already A ible jabi e L TAX TRENDS the trend of taxes bftts Is decidedly upward in 1928 the total direct and indirect tax burden atin in utah ut ah was on a per capita basis tha amounted to for the year 1938 this haq hai piped jumped to or per ica llAta this Is an increase ot of 31 in ithe ills total and as ag ti ji measured by per capita costs it js is ta tto ibe be noted that jl the past two 91 years alone the load ol of utah chaa been tin creased dea 1 spite the icax growth here indica tad jated many departments have made r ore requests quests tar ad didolis ato ho thear tha r budgets for or the coming year bear LESSENED INCOME OP OF ter ER in p bof the tax taxpayer payer has been grea itly decreased k for far instance data on farm arm I 1 income prepared by the bureau cr 0 economics Econom los shows that a 1928 the tann farm income 0 of yas rhoe as for the year 1937 thic last figures available tt had bad k cropped dropped to a loss ot of in that period in realty ille the taxpayers abil ability lity has been dl much more thal ithan this VALUATION TRENDS further is Sni diore ore tin that time alme valuations bave cropped dropped arom to low losa of measured lalu red by this rough standard tile capacity ot of the taxpayer has been ate lessened ened by that amount th alifi strength ot of the taxpayer has been P aped through che long years of 0 normal conditions ills resources nilve ave been exhausted OR BREAK WHICH ithe anscar lies ies with the tha budget budge offid als the with Is resources rig and forced to carry a tax increase of 0 31 since 1938 ja losing heart they urge that the straw be I 1 tax in lit at can alave ilave but one result disaster dimster in view ot of the conditions cond alons here set I 1 forth orth wo we respectfully respect Cully urge all budget get making ma kang officials ot utah to 13 4 make budget reductions bommen burato with the decreased ability ot of 5 athe the taxpayer if I 1 the LL ia to such action is necessary A brake must be applied to tax alon or the lar taxpayer payer will break ander the strad xi |