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Show 18th Legislature of the State of Utah Special Session 1930 The Hiiotlnl Session of the Ut I.c,lslulmi la work-luK Intliwtriously rt Hip iminmiiith task of prepnrlnir amendments to tlie T'tnh RtRto constitution consti-tution f r the consideration of (he t'ttih voter. Plverg;!ul vImvs nml conflicting sk-KP.-itioiM nnd I'lsins occur In Increasingly Increasing-ly Inrso number ns actnul work of emrmlinent lul!(!!n;Miroce?d$. Tlie inlnliif! Interests of the state ::re eneerneil over the multiple for mining tiixntlon. - ' , S'-n. O. II, ISyan, from Eureka, s niSnlnif rn,T';iieor, lins urged that the 1 !;l;.itnie wait nnd sppronch the ques-!len ques-!len from nn entirely new angle. Sir. llynn in:ij;if;:uis thut the mine multiple lmslH Is Imt n guess nt the lo: t. Ho Ihhika dint nu eipiitalile ami fselcnllfic pynlein eon be worked out If additional time 1h secured. Ben. rnttcrson claims there Is no neee?Klty for any (tclay. He wants tlm oiPHtion Rpitlrd nt oneo stu wov.M prefer havlnr: the mcUlple three placed plac-ed In the state cnnstltutlou. This la the figure In tlie statute at present ctul mnni that tlie valuation of n ' k; nine for tixntlon purposes Is rqunl to three tlniea the net proceeds for preceding year. The senate In discussing S. J. It. No. 2 has struck out the portion which would put the money from the Income In-come taxes Into the district school fund. The senate has added pumping nnd power equipment used In Irrigating to the lint of tax exemptions. The rwmte' hr.s cho fcrontl'.srd t';o peope of exemptions to Include certain property owned by widows of disabled veteran soldiers. , . , : It Is evident that the senate will . make further efforts to siwelfy Just . where the, Income tax money will, lie placed. Senator Fnrratt has a plan,? which would create a new fund to receive re-ceive this money and have the samo expended ns the legislature would direct. di-rect. ' . The senate has passed 8. J. It. No. 3 : which crentes the centralized tax body. The senate has considered a numb?' ,s of plans to amend S. J. It. No. 2, ' which provides for the classification of property, certain exemptions and " . ,,., disposition of moneys raised from In- . - ' come taxes. . 1 The house of represJntntlvcs dls- -carded II. J. II. No. 3, which was the .. , mate to 8. J. It; No. 3 and took up the Benate resjlutlon when It was passed - ' ' by the senate. Any chsuge In the present use of gasoline tnxes was onjiosed hy Chairman Chair-man Elood, of the state road' commission, commis-sion, at a committee hearing on revenue reve-nue and taxation. Mr. Blood stated that the needs of highway construction were close upon the trail of Incoming taxes placed at the disposal of the road department. Blood Informed the committee that tlie state would receive re-ceive $503,000 additional federal aid funds for the next three years and that the state puts up $110,000 to receive the $n!5,000. He thought that If the state increased "the gasoline tax and distributes the receipts in other ways than nt present, It will mean eventual need for road, bond Issues. Mr, Iilood nlso stated that extensive. Improvements Improve-ments In Utah highways was bringing In being a situation under which the present revenue would be required for upkeep alone. Provision. for the collecting of In-duio In-duio tax from Individuals and business concerns Is made In proposed amendment amend-ment of Section 3, Article! XIU of the constitution, which Is now under consideration con-sideration at the session, among Its other taxation shifting problems. The means of offsetting the taxes of thoss subject to Income tax when It Is effective is taking a deal of the legislators attention. Some plan for oiiuitabla offsetting of these taxes Is vitally necessary according to the views of some of the legislators. The senate nud house seem to have definitely abandoned the proposed revision re-vision of article 13 of the constitution os proposed by the legislative committee. commit-tee. That revision would have opened lip the subject of rate limitations, educational ed-ucational equalization and creating of an endowment fund for schools which era not now opened In the two basic amendments of the revision committee. While fixing of the silne multiple was not espro.sly placed before the sessiou by the tV6 amendments the subject l on the floor anyway. Tbo time of the Special Session Is over half consumed and the time remaining re-maining the program to be disposed of Is the constitutional amendments for the tax commission and for classification, classi-fication, a bill to continue the work of the tax revision commission and Us rdvlsory committee, tho amendments to the building code aud provision for completing tho work on the State Cap- . . itol grounds. - The honk of the automobile was heard in the legislature when a delegation dele-gation of automobile dealers called to discuss a propsal to segregate the tax on cars so ns to aid la the handling of tha auto business. An appeal to Congress for amendment amend-ment of Section C219, U. S. Revised stntntes, so as to authorize the state to Impose a Just and equitable tax on national banks was made In the form of a memorial introduced by Thorn-os Thorn-os II. Burton of Nephl. The memorial was prepared by Dr. Harvey L. Lntx, f.:x report, and member of the Utah Hoard of Equalization. . The auto question was not acted upon up-on nnd cars will probably not be separated sep-arated from other property in the final fi-nal outcome. |