Salt Lake County Board of Equalization approves assessor recommendations, continues hundreds of tax exemptions and moves to revoke some nonprofits

Salt Lake County’s Board of Equalization on April 15 approved a slate of assessor and hearing officer recommendations, moved to continue thousands of existing tax exemptions, rejected two late appeals and voted to begin revocation proceedings for several nonprofits that had not filed timely exemption paperwork.

The actions taken affect large numbers of properties and personal-property accounts across the county and include both administrative approvals and planned revocations; the board’s decisions were procedural and administrative, not legislative.

The board voted to accept 231 assessor and hearing officer recommendations as presented by a county presenter. The board then rejected two late appeals after county staff recommended denial because the appeals did not meet tax-commission guidelines for late filings.

A charity-plan review committee reported to the board that it had met with hospital systems, including Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) and CommonSpirit Health, and that the committee heard that those systems are expanding community crisis mental-health services. The committee reported that the county district attorney’s office had approved the submitted charity plans and found that, for the entities discussed, charitable contributions to the community exceeded taxes owed. The committee also noted that some hospital sites are on land held by other entities…