by Tax Watchdog | Jun 27, 2005 | 2005 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Once in this column I made the mistake of writing about professional sports. It was when Kobe Bryant rape accusations were hitting the media and Karl Malone had decided to leave the Jazz and go after the NBA championship ring with what appeared to...
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 20, 2005 | 2005 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson You may have seen a recent news report of a Utah resident who was found guilty of several tax related felonies regarding unpaid Utah income taxes. Many Utahns mistakenly think the Utah State Tax Commission doesn’t go after income tax cheats – that...
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 13, 2005 | 2005 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson The Utah Taxpayers Association will be issuing a 50-State Property Tax Report in a few weeks. The accompanying chart is taken from that report and summarizes Utah’s effective property tax rate rankings for various types of property. The report...
by Tax Watchdog | May 30, 2005 | 2005 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson The Utah Legislature’s Tax Reform Task Force is underway. One of the main purposes of the task force is to address the “structural imbalance” in Utah ’s tax system which was exposed by former Governor Olene Walker’s tax reform group. The solution,...
by Tax Watchdog | May 23, 2005 | 2005 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Instead of writing another horror story about local Redevelopment Agency (RDA) tax incentives like those published in a few past Enterprise columns, this week I would like to shift focus from local RDA incentives to state financial incentives and...
