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Show Discount Is Offered For Tax Payment County Treasurer Calls attention to New Statute Providing Discount PROVO John C. Taylor, county treasurer, calls attention of the taxpayers tax-payers to a new Utah statute which provides discounts for payment of taxes before they are due, and also al-so to another section of the same law which provides that the taxes may be paid in installments of ! $10.00 or more. , Under the provisions of the new ilaw, which became effective with the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1933, or the "Code," on June 26, a discount dis-count of two per cent will be allowed al-lowed on 1933 taxes if they are paid during the month of July; a one and one-half per cent discount if 1 paid in August; and one per oent 1 in September. After that date, no discount is allowed, as the taxes . are due. ' Next year, a discount of five pei cent will be allowed on 1934 taxes if paid during January, with the discount being decreased by one . half after that, ending with the one per cent discount in September With reference to the payment of taxes in installments, the law reads, "The county treasurer may accept and credit on account against taxes becoming due during the current year, at any time before the levies are made, paymnts in amounts of not less than $10 and the discounts hereinafter provided for shall be allowed on such payments pay-ments and credited against the tax thereafter becoming! due. After the levies are made, the treasurer may accept payments on account of current cur-rent taxes in sums not less than $10, or the full amount of said tax remaining unpaid at any time before be-fore deliquency and the discounts hereinafter provided for shall apply ap-ply to each such payment according accord-ing to the date when the same is made." Incidentally, under the new law, delinquent taxes of the years 1938, 1929, 1930, or 1931 may be redeemed redeem-ed at any time prior to January 1, 1935 upon payment of accrued taxes plus interest thereon at two per cent per annum. Due to the prevailing economic conditions this was deemed advisable as provision in the statutes is made that all delinquent de-linquent taxes with the exceptions of these years shall be subject to a penalty of two per cent of the amount of such taxes, and the amount of taxes and penalty shall bear interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from the first day of January following the date of delinquency until paid. o |