Email Thread From Gage and tax rates from Utah State Property Tax division

Spreadsheet of 9 year tax rates by County

----- Original Message -----

From: Jean Shaw

To: GAGE H FROERER

Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:17 PM

Subject: Re: Fw: Requests for Utah State Tax Commission Audit Results

Gage,
I've attached rates for all entities for past years this includes their budgets.

There are four counties who have a higher tax rate than Weber this year:
Emery .004412
Millard .003768
Piute 004066
SanJuan .004071
Usually counties have a higher rate because values are generally lower overall and they have less revenue sources besides property tax with which they fund their services (ie: less sales tax, fee-in-lieu etc.) Other counties provide less service.

There are other county-wide numbers that might help you from our website:
http://propertytax.utah.gov/finalannualstats/finalannuals.html


Values along the Wasatch Front as well as many other areas in Utah have really jumped the past few years and many citizens in these areas are noticing huge increases to their tax bills.

I also noticed that Weber County funds a county library, and parmedic services both these rates are part of their county's total tax rate.
Davis County's Library is it's own entity with it's own rate so it isn't part of the county's rate.

EXAMPLE:
Davis County rate = .002189 generating $28,606,680 (total Davis Co. value for 2007 is 14,301,675,652)
Davis County Library rate = .000375 generating $4,899,164

Weber County rate = .003608 generating $33,399,732 - this funds library ($5,693,136), paramedics ($1,462,627), (total Weber Co. value for 2007 is 10,695,113,403)

Hopefully this will help. I'd love to buy "Huntsville" if I could.

jean

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Jean Shaw
Research Consultant
Property Tax Division
801-297-3636
jeanshaw@utah.gov

>>> "GAGE H FROERER" 10/10/07 10:42 AM >>>
Jean,

Could you please review the attached email and let me know if you can shed any light on his questions.

Thanks,

Gage
----- Original Message -----
From: D-Bell
To: Gage Froerer
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:00 PM
Subject: Requests for Utah State Tax Commission Audit Results


Dear Gage,

When we "bumped into each other yesterday" I asked where the audit information..........