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Emery County adopts 2025 tax rates and raises transient room tax to 4.5% to access mitigation grants
Summary
The Emery County Commission adopted the county'wide 2025 tax rates and voted to increase the transient room tax from 4.25% to 4.5%, a move county officials said is necessary to qualify for a new statewide mitigation grant for EMS, search-and-rescue and visitor-impact projects.
The Emery County Commission voted June 17 to adopt the county'wide certified tax rates for 2025 and to increase the transient room tax (TRT) by 0.25 percentage points to 4.5%, enabling eligibility for a new statewide mitigation fund for emergency response and visitor-impact needs.
The commission approved the county'level tax schedule as presented by county staff: general operations at 0.003698, library at 0.00429, recreation/pool at 0.00068 and county assessing/collecting at 0.00463. Commissioners discussed the possibility of using Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) and inland-port revenues to reduce rates in future years but noted any reduction would be permanent if adopted…
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