Letter: Don’t shift tax burden to lower-income Utahns

When the Utah Legislature first started making noise about a tax reform bill, there was an implication that the reform was focused on establishing a service tax balanced by a sales tax cut.While a service tax should not be entered into lightly, these original bounds kept the issue of fair taxation easy to follow by Utah residents. Regardless of your stance on taxing services, Utahns could follow the logic: The economy relies less on goods and more on services by the day, and the tax system shoul