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Show j 0 Seduction k Sheep Maatieo In' rriiilv Takes 6are Of Assessed bsses1 I f assessed valuation ) "sS(ing to $47,260.00 was ab-' ab-' "lUf bv Duchesne Count :3 h tne blanket staie-wide i I 'ion of 20 per cent in the l value of sheep. -;ei!D!ving with the Stale , '"Lion's order, the Du-! Du-! -x County auditor's office js, value of sheep from fhfi74'0t0 t0 191.815.00 on' the 1952 tax rolls. This assessed value is for 42,009 head of sheep. Over-all average on the as-1 sessed valuation of sheep was l-T,rld ftr,om $6'26 Per head to $o.01 by the action. Sheep valu- e10?? .ent up from ar average ?A 04 per head in 1951 to $8.26 on the 1952 tax rolls it was pointed out by tax commis-1 sion officials. Patrick Healey, Jr., chairman of the State Tax Commission j stated that the increases were suggested and agreed- upon by county assessors in a school la-'t December as a result of surveys which showed that the livestock live-stock was not .being assessed uniformly un-iformly with real estate and ' other types of property. , In regard to sheep, however. I. Mr. Healey said: "As a result of ' hearing the testimony presented at a recent meeting of live-1 stock growers and assessors, and ; studying of transcript, the tax ; commission has determined that the 1952 assessed valuation of sheep was inequitable as compared com-pared to other classes of property pro-perty and has determined to order a blanket reduction, statewide, state-wide, of 20 per cent in the assessed as-sessed value of sheep." |