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Gov. Gary Herbert, Senate leader call for Utah to follow feds’ lead on taxes, but it doesn’t look like that will happen

Lawmakers would serve the state well to prioritize changing the tax code while they undertake a six-week policy blitz this year, Gov. Gary Herbert told them in his annual State of the State address Wednesday night.

Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, too, called it a “once in a multidecade opportunity” for Utah to piggyback off the federal tax bill Congress passed last month and revamp the state tax code for the first time in more than 10 years.

There’s too little time to vet proposals that have yet to be written, especially when tax experts are still trying to figure out the effects of the massive federal tax law.