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Utah’s tax reform push likely won’t yield ’20-year solution,' legislative leader says

Utah officials have held up their ongoing tax reform effort as a generational opportunity to revamp the state’s revenue structure so it can keep government coffers well-supplied for years to come.

But as a legislative tax task force turns to potential solutions, one of its leaders is sounding a different note about the endeavor, which has already consumed a good deal of time and political capital.

“I don’t think that whatever solution we come to now is going to be the 20-year solution,” House Majority Leader Francis Gibson said on a recent “Trib Talk” podcast.