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Utah Approves New Emergency Services Sales Tax and Modifies Rural Health Care Tax Rules

  • Utah enacted a law allowing special service districts to impose an emergency services sales tax.
  • Qualifying areas can impose up to 0.33% sales tax with governing body approval, or up to 1% with voter approval.
  • The law also changes rural county health care tax rules, exempting some counties from voter approval for the first reauthorization after Jan. 1, 2024.
  • The law was signed on October 14, 2025.

Source: news.bloombergtax.com

Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.



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