The Salt Lake County Commission has ruled that the Jewish Community Center of this city “is a charitable, religious and fraternal institution and in use as such”, and, therefore, not subject to taxation under the laws of the county and state. The amount of $1,831.30 charged to it on the tax rolls for 1932 has been stricken out. The county authorities made their decision on recommendation of one of their special tax investigators.
For sometime past there has been an insistence on the part of taxing authorities, state and local, that only strictly religious, charitable and fraternal groups be exempt from the property tax. It is contended that some of the hospitals, educational institutions, etc., which claim to be operating on a non-commercial basis are not in fact so operating and efforts are being made to tax them.
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