| Show school tax levies decreased twenty four of utah s 40 school districts decreased their tax levies this year acceding 9 to figures compiled from data sheets in the state tax commission office and made public today by the research department of the utah education association at the same time the education group pointed out olit that both the local levy and and the uniform state levy on property for school purposes vj are lower this year than last school levies noted are lower lover this year because assessed values of property have risen sharply according to state tax commission figures the valuations on property in utah for tax purposes i have increased from in 1940 to thi this s year i mr gale rose research director Direct oi pointed out that a recent re utah foundation report jhc shows that this increase has resulted largely from addition of new tax able properties to the tax rolls i and expanded metal mining A ae check on specific properties that were being taxed in 1930 a tax increase of only about ten per cent over that year mr rose points out that school boards are able to get as much m revenue denue to operate their schools this is year as they did last year even though the levy is smaller because assessed valuations have risen considerably if they had kept the same levies as last year mr rose said much more revenue would be forthcoming this is an indication that school boards in spite of hugely swollen enrolments enrollments enrol ments and inadequate school housing in most districts are operating on a conservative budget while 24 districts show decreased tax levies this year ye arMr nir rose said 14 districts marked an increase there was no change in levies of two in nine of the counties in which school districts decreased levies the country increased levi esSix also increased levies for county purposes in all 15 counties increased levies for county purposes six counties made the same ie levy vy as last year and eight decreased levies mr rose points to the fact that the utah foundation report shows that though the costs of government have risen and assessed valuations have risen in line with the whole war and postwar post war economic picture the ratio of the property i tax to the state and local tax revenue has actually decreased six per accent since 1940 and 35 j per cent since 1931 |
