Residents often have many questions about who they pay their taxes to, and how taxes are calculated.
Salt Lake County is responsible for collecting taxes for many different entities, including school districts, cities, sewer districts, mosquito abatement districts, water conservancy districts, fire district, law enforcement district, and other special improvement districts. The amount you pay is based on the budgets of the different taxing entities, as adopted by their governing bodies.
Salt Lake County controls the budgets of the county’s general government, county library services, and municipal services for the unincorporated county.