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Salt Lake County Sales Tax Fails
The one-quarter percent sales tax in Salt Lake County, UT, to benefit transportation including the Utah Transit Authority (UTA)—which was too close to call on the Nov. 3 ballot—has been defeated, according to official election results released Nov. 17. (See the Nov. 16 issue of Passenger Transport for previous election coverage.)
The measure, Proposition 1, lost in the county by a margin of 51 percent opposed to 49 percent in favor.
Salt Lake County is one of 17 counties in Utah, and one of six that are part of the UTA service district, that placed the tax measure on the ballot. Among the UTA member counties, Davis, Tooele and Weber approved the new tax and Box Elder and Utah also defeated it. Forty percent of the money raised by the new tax in UTA member counties will go to the agency.
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