SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (KUTV) — Close to a dozen Utah cities impose “transportation utility fees,” which are collected in addition to taxes. Now, commercial property owners in one community are pushing back.
“They’re changing the name from ‘tax’ to ‘fee,'” said Derek Mortensen, who has owned a 10,000 square foot building in South Salt Lake for years, and who is paying the new transportation fee, $250, for the first time this month.
“Now that property taxes have tripled for me in the last eight years,” he said, “they want to change the word from ‘tax’ to ‘fee’ and say this is something completely different.”…