state of utah

Utah is the best state in the country in terms of traffic deaths related to drunk driving. According to new numbers from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Beehive State has 52 DUI deaths annually, giving Utah the lowest percentage of traffic deaths where alcohol is involved...

A task force of state lawmakers is recommending the passage of a tax reform package that will result in a small income tax cut and new taxes on groceries and services. State Senator Lyle Hillyard of the Tax Restructuring and Equalization Task Force said last night that must be taken to remedy the state's current revenue imbalance...

– 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...