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Show By Harry Marlowe An income tax reduction for everyone in the state will come out of the Thirtieth Utah Legislature. Legis-lature. It will , not be-the: reduction reduc-tion Gov. J. Bracken Lee requested re-quested of his" Republican party majority in the two houses,-however. ' - The governor asked that individual indi-vidual exemptions be raised to $700.00 each, and he asked, that the cut be made retroatice. His GOP lawmakers went along on the idea of making any cut apply ap-ply to 1952 income, but feared a reduction, the size asked by the chief executive would bring on more property tax for the schools. With this in mind, they accepted ac-cepted a Utah Legislative Council Coun-cil recommendation to make the exemptions $600 across the board in place of the present S600 for single persons, $1200 for married couples and $300 for dependents. That much of a cut will mean a reduction of about $1,500,000 per year in income tax revenues. . On the surface it appears only, on-ly, the family man gets a break :rom the action. Republicans insist, in-sist, to the contrary, that everyone every-one will pay less. They base this on a new short form, which fun and frolic they returned to the ward, where chili and dancing dan-cing were enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, of Rangely, Colo., were visitors at the home of Mrs. Jennie Reynolds Rey-nolds during ' the week. Mr. Smith is employed with the oil company there. Lorraine Dastrup has just received re-ceived word from her fiance that he had arrived safely in Japan and is now awaiting Korean Kor-ean orders. Wesley Thacker, who is employed em-ployed at Ogden, came home to visit his family over the weekend. week-end. He brought with him a new Ford sedan. Mr. and Mrs. Glade Timothy and Mr. and Mrs. George Berrett Ber-rett made a trip to Murray, Saturday. Sat-urday. They brought back building build-ing material. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Baxter took their children to Roosevelt, Monday, ' to receive medical care. Lorraine Dastrup accompanied accom-panied them. the governor presented through the State Tax Commission. This short form adopts the federal income tax law be reference, refer-ence, thus accepting its equitable equit-able features, such as allowances for medical expenditures and the like. It also provides for the tax payer to figure his income "tax on a post-card size form in a most convenient manner. First he lists his gross income. in-come. Then he deducts either ten per cent for contributions, etc.; or'. lists the total of deductions" deduc-tions" he shows on his federal return, whichever is greater. Then from the remainder he substracts the federal income tax paid. What is left is his taxable net income. Witru-the tax matter virtually out of the way this third week, and the governor's budget, pared par-ed to conform to tax reductions, in the Rands of the appropria- tions committee, the two houses left fund matters alone for the time being. They dug into a huge backlog of measures which through the end Of the second week had totaled 200, including 184 bills and 16 resolutions and memorials. Several proposed constitutional constitution-al amendments were drawing considerable attention. Most fireworks fire-works revolved around a proposition pro-position to limit taxation on all tangible property to 1 per cent of market value for all government govern-ment purposes. Opposition came from city, and county governments, govern-ments, while just as strong for the bill were real estate interests. inter-ests. Surprising strength was found in a proposal to' amend the constitution con-stitution to provide for one senator sen-ator from each county. Just half the 60-member House sponsored a measure that would put the prooosition before the electorate in 1954. To bring about such a vote would require passage of the resolution by" a two-thirds majority in both houses. The cry for higher salaries for state, city and county officials offi-cials whose salaries are set by law continued to grow. As a result, re-sult, the two houses set up a joint committee of three members mem-bers from each body to study the problem and to recommend an equitable and fair salary adjustment ad-justment all along the line. Another set of bills certain to get some attention involves an attempt of the Utah State Press Association to provide a closer contact between local government and the people. The bills would require nublication of meeting procedures of county coun-ty commissions and of third class city and town governments. govern-ments. To provide relief in the rising costs of printing, one mi, er measure would raise the i-a7" on publication of legal noS from a maximum of ten pT per line to a legal rate ofMi cents per line in all cities Biz towns of 25,000 and under. |