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Article: Property tax hikes are fewer this year
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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Here's a glimmer of good news in the recession for Utah
taxpayers: The number of local governments that increased property-
tax revenues this year dropped by a third.
Last year, 81 local governments raised such taxes. This year, 56
did -- about 30 percent fewer.
That means property-tax revenues were increased by 11 percent of
Utah's 520 or so local governments that charge property taxes --
from cities to counties, school districts, water districts and even
mosquito abatement districts.
That is according to a Deseret News analysis of State Tax
Commission data about final tax rates imposed by governments
statewide that had started the "truth-in-taxation" process to
possibly raise them.
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