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Show UTAH REVENUE ALMOST TREBLES IN VALUE DURING PAST TEN YEARS Salt Lake City, October 12 Information In-formation compiled lor the biennial bi-ennial report of the Utah state tax commission from data supplied sup-plied by the state treasurer, shows that true revenue receipts to the State of Utah for the last fiscal year, ending with June, 1950, totaled $70.8 million. Of that total $25.4 million, or almost exactly onehalf, came to the treasury fr6m collections by the tax commission. County Treasurers supplied $6.9 million in property taxes, which were immediately returned to the 40 school districts throughout through-out the state. The federal government gov-ernment contributed for public , welfare, roads, education, health projects and other purposes, $11.3 ! million, while $17.2 million came from other sources, notable among which were the profits of the state liquor control commission commis-sion of about $3.3 million; fish and game receipts from license fees and other sources of more than $9 hundred thousand; fees collected by the various colleges and other state institutions and deparments totaling around $4.8 million; payments by teachers' to their retirement fund and interest in-terest on investments of that fund totaling $1.8 million. A large number of smaller items complete the group of "other sources." The tabulation does not include in-clude as receipts, any payments to the employment security fund, the state insurance fund and other funds of like nature. Exclusive Ex-clusive of these the state treasurer treas-urer issued receipts totaling about $80 million; but about $12.5 million of that total constituted receipts to the liquor control fund in other words receipts from the sale of liquor by the liquor control commission. Total revenue receipts to the state government have not quite trebled in the past decade. They were found to be $26.4 million in 1940; $38 million five years later, but have increased very rapidly since the end of World War II being $39.4 million in 11946; $52.3 million in 1947; $62.4 million in 1948; $68.8 in 1949 and I $70.8 million in 1950. |