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Annual Report Finds Utahns Spend $643 Per Person on City Government on Average

by Tax Watchdog | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog, Publications, Newsletters, Cost of Government

As part of our annual revenue of proposed tax increases, the Utah Taxpayers Association also compiles a report that calculates the amount of money paid per capita to city government by Utahns in the state’s 50 largest cities by population. The 2020 Cost of City...

Utah Taxpayers Association Releases Report Featuring Spending of Utah’s 112 Charter Schools

by Tax Watchdog | May 5, 2020 | Publications, Newsletters, School Spending

With 31% of all state funds in Utah’s budget going towards public education, each year your Taxpayers Association scrutinizes all of Utah’s school districts to determine per pupil expenditures. However, not all of that amount goes towards district schools. More than...

Utah Spends Nearly $10,000 Per Student on Average, According to Latest School Spending Report

by Tax Watchdog | Feb 5, 2020 | Newsletters, School Spending

According to your Taxpayers Association’s School Spending Report, Utah spends an average of $9,932 per student annually. The annual School Spending Report looks at spending from all 41 school districts and combined charter school expenditures.  The report finds...

Utah’s State and Local Government Tax Burden Falls Below National Median

by Tax Watchdog | Jan 5, 2020 | Newsletters, How Utah Compares

Utah’s state and local government tax and burden ranked 30th highest in the U.S. and below the national average during Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, according to the Utah Taxpayers Association’s annual calculations in the How Utah Compares report. Tax burden is expressed as...
County Government Costs Utahns $980 a Year, On Average

County Government Costs Utahns $980 a Year, On Average

by Tax Watchdog | Nov 21, 2019 | Annual Reports, Cost of Government

In the Utah Taxpayers Association’s 2019 Cost of County Governments report, Daggett County ranks highest for cost of government, where residents pay on average $82.65 of each $1000 they earn. The lowest ranked county is Washington County, where residents only pay...

$611 of Average Utahns’ Income Goes to City Government

by Tax Watchdog | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Cost of Government

Utah citizens are paying roughly $611 of their income to city government, which is roughly $24.72 of each $1,000 earned by residents in the city. This represents 2.4% of taxpayer income. The average cost of city government per $1,000 of income earned by city residents...
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