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Show Lhesne Ciiy Pays Highest Utah Tax, s Levy Of 68.9 Mills; 5 Urt Shows Property Given Burden -vmerty owners in Duchesne f ;7j0y the somewnut tioiiol-' tioiiol-' or oi Paying the highest; tax rate of any resi-ifu resi-ifu m Utah in 1951, it - is 'ill J by an examination of of-' of-' , reports of levies now on I 4-ith the state tax commis-' commis-' The total levy in Duchesne 9 mil's, or almost $7 on ' Sluo of the assessed value 'icir property, of which a to-tdn to-tdn mills is for schools. Lfo is a close second, with H ij mill total levy, of which .'ills is for schools, if the 205 cities and towns S!,li .jj state, 32 have property 'cvies this year of more than ills, or 6 per cent of the i;ed value; 33 more have 1 ' ts of more than 55 mills, or (i percent. l 'x the 15 cities in Utah with .e than 5000 population, Pro--vj tzs the highest total county, t and school levy, 68.15 mills; A ien is second, with 62.83 -ir Salt Lake City is third, f ii'62 mills; followed by Mur-, Mur-, 61.6 mills; Tooele, 61.4; Or-" Or-" 61 01; American Fork, 60.91; tl, Salt Lake, 59.6; Cedar V 59.3; Bountiful, 58.7; Span- Fork and Springville, each 1 56.61 mills; Logan, 54.8; -.Sham, 51.97; and Price, with 15 mills. Sere are 10 incorporated .;esof between 3000 and 5000 "pulation, and of these, five :,e total levies on property in 'jl of more than 60 mills; jeemore in excess of 55 mills, J- i two others in excess of 50. ;:e census burea also lists Drag--m and Magna in this popu-.an popu-.an class, but they pay only I ;e county and school rates, je they were not incorporated Wore January 1 last. Their to-i! to-i! levies are -respectively 37.65 id 46.6 mills. There are 11 other incorpor-;:ed incorpor-;:ed places and one unincorpor-;:ed unincorpor-;:ed with census populations 10, ietween 2000 and 3000. Of m :ese, two are paying on tax , iries of more than 60 mills, d only two incorporated plac-tf plac-tf s plus the unincorporated corn-j corn-j :aity (Garfield), pay on less 3 50 mills, if Some 31 cities and towns in-D in-D rased their local levies for i raicipal purposes, Glenwood I it much as 7 mills; Elwood and , E.iknell by 6 mills each; Moris Mor-is by 5.5 mills and Monticello p to. Of the 26 municipalities pcreasing the local levy, Tronic takes th,e lead in 1951 with a drop of 8 mills from the 16 miU 1 1950 rate; followed by Blanding, I with a 5 mill drop and all others' dropping 4 mills or less in the local levies. j I Four Utah municialities this! year have total state,, county, school and municipal rates of less than 40 mills. They are Howell, which pays 38.97 mills on the assessed value of its pro-jperty, pro-jperty, Lynndyl and Scipio, each with 38.17 mills and Kanarra-ville, Kanarra-ville, with only 37 mills. The lowest total levies are, oi course, paid by property lying ly-ing outside municipalities, which pays only the state rate (this year 6.3 mills as compared with 8.05 in 1950), the county rate and the school district rate. Localities, Lo-calities, dll outside cities and towns, which pay less than 35 mills per dollar in property taxes in 1951 are in the following follow-ing school districts and counties: coun-ties: Grand, 31.95 mills; Park City (outside Park City in southwestern south-western Summit County) 32. 5G mills; Iron, 33 mills; Millard, 33.17; Daggett, 34 mills; Juab (Juab County) 34.15 mills; Wasatch, Wa-satch, 34.5 mills; Nebo (Utah County) 34.67 mills: Tintic, (Juab County) 34.84 mills: Emery, Em-ery, 34.978 mills. "The 1951 property tax levies," lev-ies," said Patrick Healy, Jr., chairman of the Utah Slate Tax Commission, "seem to emphasize empha-size the fact that Utah cities and towns, as well as the schools, are placing great dependence de-pendence on the property tax to finance the services which the commissions and councils find their constituents are requiring re-quiring of the local governments. High tax levies are commonest in the larger centers of population, popu-lation, where the need for governmental gov-ernmental services is greatest. Profits of the state liquor monopoly mo-nopoly and the proceeds of motor mo-tor vehicle registration fees go now to towns, cities and counties. coun-ties. Such diversion of revenu? collected by the state may help somewhat to improve the quality qual-ity of local governmental service". ser-vice". Certainly they have not served, so far, to lower the property pro-perty tax rates which this year will be found, on the average, to be higher, we believe, than ever before in Utah." |
