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Uintah County adopts 0.25% transient room tax to help pay search-and-rescue, tourism costs
Summary
The Uintah County Commission voted June 24, 2025, to adopt an ordinance adding a 0.25% transient room tax to fund search-and-rescue reimbursements and tourism mitigation.
The Uintah County Commission voted June 24, 2025, to adopt an ordinance adding a 0.25% transient room tax, a change officials said will let the county seek and receive state-administered TRT funds to help cover the cost of out-of-county search-and-rescue operations and to support tourism-related mitigation.
The ordinance cites recent action by the Utah Legislature amending Utah Code 59-12-301 through HB 456 to authorize counties of the second through sixth class to impose a transient room tax on accommodations and related services. The county resolution says Uintah County, described in the ordinance as a fourth-class county, desires to impose the additional quarter-percent “in order to…
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