In the last few years, the Utah Legislature has increased taxes for internet sales, 911 services, telephones, transit and gasoline. Property tax increases have been significant. Some families have seen their taxes increase almost $1,000 this year.
Despite promises that taxes are going to be cut, they usually end up increasing. The best (or worst) case was the 2017 so-called federal tax cut. The Utah Legislature had to try several times to adjust the Utah tax rates to give Utah families the promised tax cut which originally increased their state taxes. The larger the family, the more taxes they would pay even with the federal tax cut.