| Title |
M. H. Kerr, Salt Lake City, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
M. H. Kerr, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Kerr, M. H. |
| Contributor |
Haddard, Mitch |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Kerr, M. H.--Interviews; Auditors--Utah--Interviews; Uranium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
Tax auditors |
| Description |
Transcript (24 pages) of an interview by Mitch Haddard with M. H. Kerr, on August 4, 1970. From tape number 61 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Kerr, director of the Utah State Tax Commission, talked with Mitch Haddard in Salt Lake City. Subjects: assessment of taxes, tax laws, small mining companies, problems with tax assessment (24 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
15 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6sf538v |
| Topic |
Auditors; Uranium industry |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054885 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf538v |
| Title |
Page 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054867 |
| OCR Text |
Show M. H. KERR #1 have cooperated with the tax commission in giving us mill reports on all their purchases. So we know pretty well what's going on as far as production's concerned: who is producing, where it's being produced, and how much their proceeds are. MH: The question comes to my mind--you mentioned before that through your average of taxation and this is something I guess your tax commission went through a long struggle in order to have that aspect of it changed. Now could you explain to me exactly-- MK: Well, the net-proceeds law was in existence before the uranium boom ever hit, and it was specifically tailored to long-term operations such as Tinic Standard Mining Company up at Eureka, in the Eureka district, particularly in connection with Kennecott Copper's operation. Now one time they had a one-year and then they changed it to a three-year average, so it's to smooth out the income, and it has worked very well. It has worked very well and in the hard-rock mining industry, in the copper, the lead, zinc, silver, gold, and this type of mining activity. When we started into uranium, we saw some defects in it. Now this is something you may want to discuss, how we corrected those defects over the years. Now in the first place we had this matter--the one you 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf538v/1054867 |
