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• Source: Deseret Morning News
• Date: January 29, 2006
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• Bylines: Lee Davidson
• Topics: Business , Tax
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: Not paying property tax can amount to a cheap "loan" to help ends meet, especially in Utah, where penalties and interest are low. Businesses in the three counties dragged their heels, paying at least $30 million in taxes after their deadlines. The situation is made clearer by computer-assisted analysis by the Deseret Morning News of government records for nearly 30,000 individuals and businesses that failed to pay property taxes by the Nov. 30 deadline. Delta is the biggest property tax debtor in the three counties. By itself the airline accounts for $1 of every $20 in tax not paid on time or owed from previous years.