| OCR Text |
Show Individual Taxes Pay Only Part Of Federal Service . Direct state and local taxes paid by individuals and families meet only a fraction of the cost of providing major governmental governmen-tal services in Utah, it was revealed re-vealed in the latest report issued is-sued by Utah Foundation, the private non-profit tax research organization. Although the data for precise calculations are not obtainable, an examination of available information in-formation makes it clear that the cost of the specific state and local governmental services received re-ceived far exceed the state and local taxes paid by the typical Utah family, Foundation analysts anal-ysts declare. The report analyzed the taxes paid by a typical family in Utah with an income of $4,000 per year and owning real and personal property (home, furnishings, fur-nishings, and automobile) val- ued at $10,000. These figures were obtained from 1950 U. S. Census data for the median family fam-ily in Utah with adjustments made for the inflationary trend since 1950. According to the Foundation sj;udy, this typical Utah family would pay the following taxes based on 1952 rates: property taxes, $100; sales taxes, $50; gasoline taxes, $40; state income taxes, $934; car license tax, $5, and all other taxes (cigarette, liquor, oleomargarine, insurance, insur-ance, etc.), $43. These taxes add up to a total of $247.34, which is $16.10 less than the average amount spent per pupil ($263.44) last year in the public schools. Therefore, the report con-, eludes, the total state and local taxes paid for all purposes by a typical family in 1952 fall short of meeting the actual public school cost for one child, without with-out reference to the cost of roads and streets, fire and police po-lice protection, welfare costs, health services, and the myraid of other services provided by state and local government. |
