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Show Mayor Works on Committee for Sales Tax Problem For the past month, Mayor Burton H. Adams has boon serving serv-ing as chairman cf a county-wide committee seeking an amendment amend-ment to Senate Bill 32. Tha amendment as 1'ecoiruuended would have prescribed that the Vi cent County-City optional sales tax be distributed to the cities and counties on a population popula-tion basis. The amendment failed but the orginal bill passed. As the law stands now, the monies collected from the tax will be sent to the Tax Commission in Salt Lake City and distributed to the cities and counties on the basis of the amount respectively sent in. "This means," said Mayor Adams, Ad-ams, "that Pleasant Grove would receive only the residue of the tax sent in by our business houses hous-es after expenses of administration administra-tion are deducted. Residue is the right word," he added. According- to the Mayor, the large shopping centers of Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan and Provo will benefit from every dollar spent there by out of town shoppers, as the law reads now. If the option tax is adopted in Utah County a strenuous effort will still be made to allocate the receipts on a population basis, Mayor Adams emphasized. |