Show OF PUBLIC EXP 2 what the tax money is spent fo for the difficulties which ilitch beset the tax paver in lits lilg to control the arlic amount or tax money to be collected in ill ills community were were discussed in pur last article nud and we indicated that albrough tiro a proper understanding ot of the procedure the taxpayers ot of any community bouli assist in determine ienir ln in advance what the public expenditures for any local purpose should be the tax notice which each t taxpayer recell receives foes does not show tile the action or of any one tax lax body hut bit Is tile combined exult or the levies of each branch of government under which the property of the taxpayer Is sub eject to taxation thus if 1 the proper tN Is located in III a city it Is subject to te tax taxation atlon for sante cou county rity school di and city purposes we shall examine the situation in Montle ello for the year lasi 1931 to illustrate how th tax bill la Is formulated nud tn in chow I 1 w ti the I 1 e proportion of the total tot ill ox chic it t Is levied for each purpose in order hat the various purposes can he croup P d under the heads with ald we no me are familiar we ve shall use the fol lowing distribution state general fund county reads schools and finally city att ctt purposes we find that each dollar which Is paid in taxes tas on property in tile town of monticello Is distributed as ag follows stile state beneral fic fund 06 district and hanh schools 52 county comity purposes pui poses 18 rods rands 13 1 city purposes 11 I 1 the above aboe are aie not sorn t tile the state stale hut but vary in accordance with the lie levies alvies in ailt localities lof j we shall hall now no briefly analyze eacel of tile lie above purposes pm poses the stata teneil 1 I lund iund loy levy Is ig appi applied fell upon the illitia Ill atlon Itla 7 of all pro erty lug the entire fie state the revenue fi aiom oni ahn till som domce ce is us e d fr foi the operation if if the state government this ln ili the university ot of utah tle the af utah all state Agil cultural college tile the branch agricultural college at cit the state prison tile the c hool for t hi h e del ded de l nid and blind and various other institutions the levy for foi district list let airl an schools includes the state levy for these purposes a 1 I well i as tit the local levies in ili the state levid le ind a tax ta of 1 1 17 1 mills ills lot foi state late disiro school pi nrose and 2 or of a mill for foi state school purposes pin poses the revenue oinie is secured set in ed from these levies leles is I 1 dipti back to the school dIstrI 04 the state district shoot levy lev Is distributed on oil a basis at approximately 2500 25 00 per pel capita chool population while help the state high school lcy is paid bick back to the school districts on a busts of the attendance in I 1 tile the high schools school for the school feriv ear 19 1931 0 1 l 2411 poi pei ciati was aa dis dh tributes tri buted for foi the district school funn and 58 pi per capita for the ill I 1 high jig school fund under this arrangement si a county count which Is above the average in ili per pel canita wealth contributes to the aid of the schools in a 0 county alch which is under the average per capita wealth last year eai tile tho total state school tax charged in san juan county vaa nas icile the total mount amount of lid aid which kiich sin san juarl juan county received from dom tile tho state tax for di district j and bild high schools ans as an tint t the san sail juan county school district vec 1 ecea elveI ed alo 52 more from fi on 1 the ilic state school tn tax than linn avas as charged I 1 sin juan county property for tills tax ax tills this total does not in n elude san sail ruan juan County Coun tvs 19 receipt from froin the state land interest and rental lind in the amount of I 1 the levy lev for county pin poses I 1 Is lardo up tip from tile follo im steins general fund poor and Ind larent te ce mothers library interest and fund aind old od age ace pensions pons luns tho road loid levy consists of 25 3 5 mills for foi county purposes pui poses find and a levy of 23 25 fer the ni maintenance arld and repair or of t te e state stale highway within ann jinn county I 1 tile the levy lov loi for tho the town of lios n i toast or of 4 mills inells tills this total JA is niam maa up as follows gen rol fund I 1 mills in ili the above aboe we IB have brierly briefly an the tax levied on property pio perty sit aty in Moni alon edlo this analysis shows shotts the gp purpose for which baxes axes are aie now being raised and provides a basis foi the lie faither fuit lier study of the hie tax problem the die taxpayer la im probably pio bably interested tn ili the total amount or of ills his tax bill more moie than tit in puy one item but the total bill Is made up ili of oc matly mail items each levied for different purposes pin poses it if taxes are aio to be i reduce deduced tile the i must bo be applied directly to the individual items terns which make up ill tile total our next article ai title will explain biow ahe he villious vil rious items make up tho the total tax bill are aie debei mined upon an I 1 1111 point the way ariy riy to the taxpayer taip iyer w who ho Is s interested in ili ill alie effective control of 0 public expenditures |