The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-19
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CORNER.
The Tax Bill.

IT.. Finance Committee Of the House OF
no,esa,es reported on Saturday a bill levying
..xos for the support Of the Government,
sor,e Of the principal provisions OF which we
ri,e below. In order to avoid any misappre-
hension. II must be distinctly understood that
,,is only a bill, and that 1t will be, doubtless,
considerably modified before 1t Is passed. Sc
soon &C /, becomes a law 1t will be published
in the columns of this paper.
As reported, the following taxes are pro.
posed in the bill: Capitation tax, twenty-eight
cents upon each male person over twenty-one
wears Of age. On lands, fourteen cents on
every one hundred dollars Of assessed value,
On collateral inheritances, two per cent. on
value. On personal property, fourteen cents
on every one hundred dollars Of value. On
deeds and contracts admitted to record, one
dollar each. On suits, ejectments, ana attach'
ments, hfty cents; on appeals, writs OF error
or supersedeas, two dollars and II In q cir
cult court or court Of appeals, three dollars.
LICENSES.
Merchants on commencing business, $50
on annual sales Of less than $1,000, n tax OF 20
under 1000, $40; under IS, 600, SO under
$1,000, $50; under $4,000, ss5; under $4,000,
AIS: under slS,00o, 500; under S25,00o. SO
under ss5, 900, SIS; under $50 900, 800 and u
for every $40, 900 in excess Of $500 Commits
sion merchants pay $50 and two per cent. on
commissions received and liquor merchants,
wholesale sloo, retail $40, in addition to the
TAX on amount Of sales, as in the case of mer.
chants.
Sample merchants pay $500 pedlers $40; and
book agents $40.
General auctioneers pay a specific tax Of $50
and when engaged in business in a town hav-
ing q population of more than five thousand
persons. a. for every one thousand above thai
number. Those who sell wines and liquors
pay on-ehalf per cent upon amount OF sales
Real estate agents $50, or in a place having q
population of over two thousand persons,
800, and a quarter per cent. upon amount OF
sales. Ship brokers pay $50, and stock brokers
$3.50. .
On manufacturing wines, ardent spirits, aho
malt liquors, $25, and 5 cents on each gallon
of wine or spirits, and 2 cents on each gallon
of malt liquor.
Hotels, $50, and eight per cent. upon annua
rent; houses of private entertainment, IS
and five per cent. on annual rent above Sloo
boarding houses, SIS, and five per cent. on rent
eating-houses, $50, and $40 additional If retail
ing ardent spirits, wines, &c.
Bakeries, IS, and one per cent. on value o.
articles baked for sale; bowling saloons, 800
and SIS for each alley beyond one; billiard
tables, 800, and 800 for each beyond one.
Physicians, surgeons and dentists, IS, ano
one per cent. on taxable income for preceding
year BARRIERS, $40; Daguerrean artists, Sl5,
and one per cent. on taxable income added
house agents, $40; livery stables, fifty cents on
every stall foreign insurance companies, -;
for each agency telegraph companies, $500,
and one per cent. on earnings received, OF
realized but not received.
INCOME.
The general tax on incomes from interests
and profits is proposed to be three per cent.
and a higher rate in certain excepted cases.