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Utah’s U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee are supporting an amendment to the Omnibus government funding bill introduced by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) that would fully fund the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. The amendment, which is paid for by reducing US spending on overseas programs, would provide $421 million for PILT in Fiscal Year 2014. Local governments receive federal payments under the PILT program to help compensate for the loss of property tax revenue due to non-taxable federal lands within their boundaries

Utah Housing Corporation recently announced awards of its 2013 round of competition for federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). As the administrator of the LIHTC program for the State of Utah, Utah Housing received applications for 24 proposed projects, requesting a total of $11,624,000 in annual housing credits

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - March 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For more than 20 years, the Pamela Atkinson Homeless Trust Fund tax...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - September 2, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- A 10-count federal indictment unsealed Thursday charges Christopher D. Hales, age 29, of Midvale, with mail, wire, and bank fraud and with money laundering in connection with an alleged mortgage fraud scheme.

Salt Lake City, UT - November 4, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- In tough financial times it seems plenty of companies are claiming they can save Utah homeowners from foreclosure.

Salt Lake City, UT - March 27, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — The Utah Attorney General's Office today charged the CEO of Utah Financial Inc., Midvale, Utah, and his wife with 18 second-degree felony counts for allegedly running a lucrative mortgage fraud scheme.

Salt Lake City, UT - January 27, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) – Governor Jon Huntsman will speak Friday, January 30 at the annual launch of the Pamela Atkinson Homeless Trust Fund tax campaign.

A group that is fighting the country's foreclosure crisis is giving Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff an "A" for his efforts to help homeowners....

What is The Utah Farmland Assessment Act How is productive value determined? How is land classified? What does it take to qualify? What are the production requirements? What are...

It sounds like a great combination: extremely valuable land, with rock-bottom property taxes. It’s real, legal and happening in one of the wealthiest corners...