by Tax Watchdog | Aug 15, 2014 | In the News
Each year, your Utah Taxpayers Association collects the financial and statistical data for Utah’s school districts and charter schools. This information compares the spending trends between school districts and outlines how school districts spend taxpayer...
by Tax Watchdog | Aug 6, 2014 | News and Media, In the News
Mayors from the six UTOPIA cities that voted to move forward to Macquarie’s Milestone 2 announced that they want voters to weigh in on the uNOpia tax through an opinion question on the ballot this November. Here are links to local press coverage: Salt Lake...
by Tax Watchdog | Aug 5, 2014 | News and Media, In the News
By Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Senate Finance Committee Chair Most of the talk in Washington about taxes these days sadly has not been about the need to reform our broken tax code. Most of the discussions have been about what to do about so-called “corporate...
by Tax Watchdog | Aug 5, 2014 | News and Media, In the News
For years cities have cajoled state and local school boards into giving property tax subsidies to retail developers by promising that these subsidies would yield higher property tax revenues in the long term. With only a few exceptions (see the August 2010 issue of...
by Tax Watchdog | Jan 27, 2014 | In the News
The USTAR Audit: A Follow Up The December 2013 edition of “The Utah Taxpayer” reported the results of a legislative audit of USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative. That article reported that the Audit highlighted a variety of discrepancies...
by Tax Watchdog | Jan 6, 2014 | In the News, Press Releases
Monday, January 6, 2014 Contact: M. Royce Van Tassell 801.836.7028 Independent Study Shows Tax Subsidies for New
1000-room Hotel will Hurt Existing Hotels The Utah Taxpayers Association today released a new study by hotel and real estate consultants HREC....
