by Tax Watchdog | Oct 29, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson It’s past time the Utah Legislature switched its defined benefit (DB) retirement plans to a defined contribution (DC) system. The positive benefits of such a change would be significant for both state employees and the taxpayers who employ them,...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 22, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Salt Lake County Council of Governments ranked rail and road projects to give a higher priority to those which would save the fewest lives at the highest cost per life saved. Projects which would save more lives per project dollar were given the...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 15, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson A few weeks ago I was invited to speak to a group of 40 educators who were also students in an education administration class at Utah State University. Earlier, I had been wrestling bureaucrats at the Utah State Office of Education over their...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 8, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Patrick Byrne may seem like an atypical education reformer. He has no children, doesn’t invest or plan to invest in private schools, and he’s much better known for being an investor and starting his career with Warren Buffet. Yet he is the head...
by Tax Watchdog | Oct 1, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson We discussed the theory and mechanics behind Utah’s property tax Truth-in-Taxation law last week. Now we’ll talk about the impact of this law in controlling property taxes since it was enacted in the mid 1980s. Property tax revenue growth before...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 24, 2007 | 2007 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Most Utah property tax payers saw their taxable values increased dramatically this year and the natives are getting restless. The Utah Legislature’s joint Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee held a public hearing last Wednesday to hear from...
