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League board prioritizes protecting property-tax authority as multiple state bills emerge
Summary
Board members voiced concern about competing property-tax bills (including a Representative Peterson proposal and a shift concept) and adopted guiding principles to preserve local property-tax authority while staff continues data analysis; members noted LFA data errors and requested further study on bonding and local impacts.
The Utah League of Cities and Towns board made property tax one of its top advocacy focuses for the legislative session, adopting two guiding principles to steer engagement as several bills and proposals move through the statehouse.
Staff summarized member Slido homework and said five themes emerged: frustration that legislators do not understand truth-in-taxation, frustration about public pushback on property tax but not on user fees, problems tied to late rate certification, concerns that legislators ask…
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