Show UTAH fahami BUREAU ADVOCATES DRASTIC reform IN TAXATION our utah state farm bureau ot of which joseph anderson Is president at sat lake city issued I 1 in n its issue of the alie a page pae under tile the caption call to arms battle for tax lie form in this story which likely many oth er farmers have read is a detailed analysis of 0 tile state tax debt show ing 32 iten items is or divisions and a to tal of 0 17 million dollars collars ot of taxes charged of this sum improvements on city lotts make up the large item or 2509 percent and other improvements of acreage or a total of 2884 percent exact amount of 0 the tax load Is O tor for all the 32 divisions town and city lots come second or 1031 1631 percent and farm and grazin ing land comes fourth with 1286 per cent anil and railroad companies third or reent irrigated farm farin land alone hears bears percent of vie the burden while all livestock including poultry bring brine in only the small amount of percent not as much as aa grazing land or unimproved improved and dry diry farm lands thi that pay of the 32 items 13 are futilely ruTi entirely lely agricultural ri in nature and seven more are partially composed of ag tural property estimating Estl matins the total tax burden paid the farm bureau story says that agriculture pays percent of the 1712 17 million assessed rut but in some of tile the rural counties this ration goes as high as or nearly all of it it Is evident that it if about four of the larger citizens citizen were svere taken out that pays actually at least two thirds ot of the taxes the farm bureau believes thattie that the income tax is the proper method of taa taxation tion we ave are defered jo to mines which pay on a base of three times the net proceeds plus the value of if surface property and it says t the I 1 e farm pays on a liase base of 35 3 to 44 times the net returns mines pay only on surface improvements unless a net let profit is made while the farm pays on n a net valuation whether or not lot it pas a cent year after year all the merchandise in the state paya only including supplies and fixtures while power companies compan les pay i percent and mining malnin companies 5 rca 6 4 iMn chinery tools and implements pay or more than livestock of all kinds the lutali farm aho ad cates elites a constitutional amendment so s that tangible property my not be taxed tor for state purposes other changes are the following excise taxes on selected commodities upon a gross sales basis raise inheritance taxation tax deposits of mines as they are extracted and become aval available lable tor for sale bi similar nillar to the minnesota plan ua icae e liquor it if localized legalized pay all revenue to the state place public utilities upon n R comparable base both for taxation and rate making purposes tax tangible property after constitutional amendment men dment and statutory provisions fire made 84 so that it may pay according to the revenue deri ilvried ile ried toed insist that income be dominant the abote abo te are only part of the cila ch ances advocated adoca ted farmers are forced to act or quit |