state of utah

– The Tax Restructuring and Equalization Task Force traveled the state to hold eight town halls during a listening tour to hear directly from Utahns about the state's tax structure during the summer. The public engagement was unprecedented. Appr...

Utah lawmakers will consider a bill that would publicize state tax exemptions. The bill was filed by State Representative Joel Briscoe, who says current law does not require companies to report the exemptions they receive. If approved, the bill would not reveal individual company names, but would make public the dollar amount they receive in exemptions and break it down by industry...

Scammers are targeting business owners in Utah. Tamara Wilcox, a Tooele County small-business owner, got a letter saying she owed 72 dollars for a Certificate of Existence. Wilcox had just gotten a certificate online from the State of Utah...

The state of Utah may be facing a lawsuit after failing to award all ten of the licenses it had available to grow medical cannabis. KaeCee Kingsley of Hildale says the state sent her a letter that indicates she and partners North Star Holdings qualified for one of the ten licenses...

Members of the Utah Legislature and statewide elected officials could soon have new term limits.  The United Utah Party has filed a ballot initiative that if passed would limit legislators to consecutive 12 years in office, giving state senators three terms and House members six terms.  ...

Members of the advisory panel analyzing Utah health care are opposed to the state's plan to partially expand Medicaid.  In a letter sent to the Department of Health, the Medical Care Advisory Committee asks local and national administrators to reject the changes approved by state lawmakers.  ...

The task force of state lawmakers who will consider ways to reform Utah's tax code plans to have its own website. State Senator Lincoln Fillmore of South Jordan updated members of the Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee yesterday on the action the task force has taken so far...

Lt. Governor Spencer Cox didn't raise quite as much money as he claimed to during the first month of his campaign for governor. UtahPolicy.com reports that one-third of the 250-thousand-dollars Cox claimed to have raised since kicking off his campaign last month was actually transferred from his existing political campaign funds...

Utah is leading most of the nation when it comes to the well-being of children in the state. According to the annual Kids Count Report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Utah ranked seventh overall in the country. Utah performed especially well in economic well-being categories, coming in at number-four, and family and community categories, where the state was first...

Lawmakers are considering a proposal to spend up to one-million-dollars in state funds to promote participation in the 2020 census. Legislative leaders met earlier this week to discuss spending anywhere between 500-thousand to one-million dollars...