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Show -pTlOM Bl SSKl.HKRC; RfflfX-Jo"1"""' Mltor UYTON -- A Davis County re-,. re-,. ' I Kving in the unincorporated " ty, owning a $60,000 home, , .t.e'his taxes rise from $644 last ;;ar.o$7oi. THAT'S a nine percent increase ,nd comes in spite of a .69 mill levy r .rease and is typical ot changes Lsthe state that saw an actual Sop in mill levies while the amount payers have to fork out's risen. ja'x watchdog Jack Olson, ex-itutive ex-itutive vice-president of the Utah Taxpayers Assoc., outlines the ropcrty burden throughout the ounty. not only listing unincorpo'-jied unincorpo'-jied county levels but for each jty and special service districts, as 'it'll. Denotes that "ail loeaiiy- issessed property valuations were umped 12 percent this year as the estilt of the Legislature responding respond-ing to the Supreme Court's ruling hat the 1978 assessment freeze i'as unconstitutional. The lawyers law-yers also imposed a 106 percent jmit on 1984 property tax revenues." re-venues." ' He said a "uniform 12 percent s mandated by the Legislature ras added in assessment, although jiH levy rates "varied greatly," iiih Bountiful's decreasing the tost, by 3.95 mills. Even so, the lory there is fairly typical, he said, pin that S60,000-homeowner still fceing his taxes go from $716 in 983 to S761 now. "EXCEPT IN very few isolated ises, the lower levy rates, limited ij the 106 percent law, did not ome close to offsetting the 12per-tnt 12per-tnt assessment increase," citing jmuch as a 10 percent property H jump in Salt Lake City, where .he rate for that same imagined home would go to $840. Figures are contained in the . Utah 1984 Tax Levies" booklet just released, lie noted some $601 million in collections are anticipated, antici-pated, up by $68 million, or about one-eight more than last year's collections. col-lections. HKRE'S A breakdown of the tax mill levy load for each city and unincorporated un-incorporated area: -In the unincorporated area, the general county mill levy rose from 15.11 to 15.59; school district dropped drop-ped trom 44.66 to 43.66 while the library fell by five-hundreths percent per-cent and special districts, including Weber Basin Water and mosquito abatement, fell by twelve-hundredihs. twelve-hundredihs. to 1.3. totalling 62.6 this year. "HOUNTIHIAS city levy declined de-clined by 3.26 mills, down to 9.13, while the county, school and both special service districts dropped the 69-hundreths, the same story for most cities except those with other special districts. The total levy fell from 75.68 to 71.73. -Centerville's city levy dropped from 14 to 13.3, with their total package falling from 77.29 to 75.9, a 1.39 drop. CLEARFIELD'S, ranking as second highest, includes 14.98 city levy, a .71 decline, with total levy at 80.06, a 1.41 drop. -Clinton's levy fell to 77.54, a 3.10 fall, including a 3.42 change in the city levy, down to 14.94. FARMINGTON'S city level dropped from 11.05 to 10.75 while the biggest drop came in discontinuing discon-tinuing a special Weber Basin Water Wa-ter 1 . 1 1 mill levy, for a total levy of 76.05. -In Fruit Heights, the city levy was pared from 1 1 .69 to 1 1 .27 for a total 1.11 drop down to 73.87. -KAYSVILLE'S mill levy, near that of its eastern neighbor, saw a .31 city levy decline, to 13.09, while the total dropped by .95, to 73.64. -Layton's mill levy saw a city drop from 17.1 to 16.51 for a total 1 .23 decline, down to 77.06 overall. -NORTH SALT Lake's city levy was kept at 11.5 while South Davis Sewerdeclined slightly, to 2.96, for an overall decline of .73 to 77.06. -South Weber's city mill levy was one ofonly two to increase, up from 9.82 to 10.26, but overall the rate dropped from 73. 1 1 to 72.86. -SUNSET SAW a 1.5 overall drop, down from 81 .65 to 80. 15, the county's highest. The city levy dropped by .7, however, to 13.18, while North Davis Sewer and the Weber Basin Special declined slightly. -Syracuse, still with by far the lowest city levy and barely registering regis-tering the lowell overall mill levy, dropped its city levy from 6.36 to 6.04 with overall down to 71.11 WEST Bountiful's city levy stayed at 8.82 while overall fell from 75.11 to 74.38. West Point's dropped from 74.16 to 73.47 with the city levy retained at 10.87. -WOODS CROSS' city levy was jacked up from 7.07 to 7.28 with overall falling from 73.36 to 72.84. |