Free Utah Online Tax Records

Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times.

Types of Taxes

• Income tax
• Federal direct tax
• Poll or head tax
• Real property, e.g., land
• Personal property, e.g., livestock, equipment, carriages, enslaved persons
• Other, such as special levies for roads, schools, etc.

Types of Information

• Date
• Residence address; property, license, or goods; value; tax amount; possibly profession, occupation, or trade
• Name of taxpayer, usually white adult males
• Town/township/city, county, and state of residence
• Owner and/or renter of the property
• Number of white adult males in the home
• Type and value of property
• Livestock owned
• Personal property owned
• Amount of tax owed
• Profession, occupation, or trade
• Number of school-aged children
• Number of enslaved persons

Derivative information, such as birth date, death date, and date of marriage can often be estimated or determined from the presence or absence of a person in a tax list.

Good primers regarding the genealogical value of tax records and more details can be found in these articles:

• The Genealogical Benefits of Tax Records
• Using Poll Tax Records for Genealogy
• Genealogy 101: Tax Records
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 1
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 2
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 3
• United States Taxation
• The Value of Using US Tax Records in Genealogy Research

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(Updated September 2023)

Listed below are links to tax records that are available for free online for the state:

Utah Tax Records

• Box Elder County, Assessment Rolls, 1890
• Cache County, Assessment Rolls, 1869-1893
• Garfield County, Assessment Rolls, 1882-1891
• Iron County, Tax Lists and Assessment Rolls, 1873-1876, 1881-1885
• Kane County, Assessment Rolls, 1878-1880, 1898-1901
• Nephi, Receipt Books, 1890-1907
• Rich County, Assessment Rolls, 1886, 1890
• Salt Lake City Tax Assessment Rolls, 1856-1892
• Salt Lake City, Tax Records, 1856-1878
• Salt Lake City, Abstract Rolls 1878-1880
• Salt Lake County Assessment Rolls, 1853-1878
• Sanpete County, Assessment Roll Records, 1873-1890
• Sanpete County, Tax List, 1865
• Sanpete County, Tax List, 1865
• Summit County, Assessment Rolls, 1878-1886
• Tooele County, Assessment Roll Records, 1873-1879
• Uintah County, Records of Births and Deaths, 1895-1905; and Assessment Rolls, 1888, 1889-1890
• United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874
• Utah County, Assessment Rolls, 1865-1915
• Washington County, Assessment Rolls, 1865-1913
• Wayne County, Assessment Roll Records, 1892
• Weber County, Assessment Rolls, 1869-1880