The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-03-20
The New Internal Revenue Law.

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reductions provided to into effect from the frs
Monday of the present month. The followingis al
phabetical list the Subjects and the new tax thu
The total estimated reduction Is about S2S,oeo
600:
Apothecaries butchers, confectioners plumbers and
easitters whose annual sales exceed SIS 600 lin ad
dition to special tax required,) tax for every
Thousand in addition to SIS 600 of one dollar.
Boots and shoes, made wholly or in part of India
rubber, 2 per cent
Bonnets, per cent.
Butter or cheese NO special tax required)
Cigars cigarettes, and cheroots of all descriptions
made Of tobacco any substitute therefor per thou
sand, five dollars.
Aote-The ad valorem tax on cigars is wholly IDOL
ished and uniform rate established given.
Cotton, raw, per 10. Ok cents
Copper and brass tubes per cent.
Distilled spirits, whisky etc. per gallon. two dollars
Ferry companies, receipts on, 21@ per cent.
Gas comprehensive in old law, but the
companies are authorised to charge the tax to
mers without limit Of time THE old law limited the
time to April !, 1867
Gunpowder, canister powder per h., cents
Gunpowder, for sporting purposes, il kegs, cent.
GLASS; manufacturers Of, per cent.
Grapes, brandy made from, per gal 81.
Hats caps and hoods, of all descriptions per cent.
! Hoop skirts, per cent.
Locomotives and marine engines, per cent
Leather of all descriptions, and goat, deer, calf kid
horse ad dog skins, tanned or fni<hed partially
the rough, ~ per cent
Sugars produced from sugaI.c me- and not from
ghum or ilnphee, per b., cent.
Sugars refined, not including syrup or moasses, IA
per cent.
SCTeWS,
Wool manufacturers Of where wool is chief compo-
nent, 215 per cent.
No tax shall be imposed upon the dyeng or re-dye-
ing reprinting of cloths other articles, except
the process of their manufacture.
/ THE STAMP TAX.
The stamp tax is but little changed by this amenda-
tory act No stamp, either for probate of will let
tiers tesIementary, of administration on admins
traitor or guardian bond is required when the value
the estate and effects real and personal does not ex-
coed $1,000 No stamp tax is required upon any papers
to be used for the collection from the Gov
of the United States for pensions back pay,
bounty, for property lost in the service The fifty
cent stamp writs or other original documents by
which any suit is commenced in court and confess
sons of judgment, well as stamp tax Of twenty five
cents on warrants Of distress are abolished.
THE FREE LIST
The following list OF additional articles have been re-
/ lieved from further taxation:
Apple pairing machines, alcoholic and ETHEREAL vegeta
bic extracts when solid and used solely for medicinal
purposes
/ alerope seineS and netting for seineS, twine and
| lioes of all kinds.
Bar, rod hoop, band, sheet and plate iron, and iron
| prepared for manufacture OF steel
Brush blocks.
| Bee hives.
| Canned and preserved meats; including shell fish.
Carbonic acid and carbonate of lime, used solely for
dsinfectants
Carpet bag and caba frames.
Canned and preserved vegetables and fruits.
Casks, churns barrels, wooden brushes, and broom
handles tanks, and kits made Of wood including coop
| erage Of all kinds, bungs and plugs, packing boxes,
| nest boxes match boxes, whether made of wood
other materials; wooden names, pillow beams, split bot
tom chairs, and turned materials for the manu-
featured, and saddle trees made of WOOD and match
boxes heretofore made on which tax has not been
paid .-.---.-
Castings of iron, copper, brass made for machin-
cry, cars scales, and castings made to form part
ofany article upon which, in finished state, tax is
assessed and paid
Cast iron hollow ware and cast iron hollow ware
timed enameled japanned or galvanised.
Clock trimmings namely: clock work, clock pillars.
clocks WInHInp Eays and
pendulum rods.
Clothing articles of dress not specially enumera-
ted made by sewing, for the wear of men, women or
children, from cloths or fabrics which duty has
been paid.
Copper bottoms for articles used for domestic and Gu
nnary purposes.
Doors window sash, blinds frames aud sills of what
ever material.
Drain, gas and water pipe, made of wood or cement
Frames and handles for saws and buck saws.
Glue and gelatine, of all descriptions in the solid
state
Glue and cement made wholly or in part of glue in
Horse rakes, horse powers, tedders hames scythe
snahs, hay forks hoes and portable grinding mills
Horse blankets made from cloth on which tax or
duty has been paid.
Icorice and licorice paste
Magnesium lamps
Manufactures Of jute.
Molasses, concentrated moasses.
1leado or hgar cane juice and cistern bottoms. |
OIL naptha, benzne, benzole gasoline marking |
more than seventy degrees Baume's hydrometer the
of crude petroleum of crude oil produced BY sin
gle dlstation of COAL shae, peat asphaltum other
bltImnouS substances.
Palm leaf and straw bleached, split prepared or
adorned by being braided or woven but not made IN
into hats, bonnets or hoods.
Potato hooks potato dggers, ptchforks, manure and
spadng forks.
Pottery ware of all descriptions, including stone,
earthen, Drown and yellow earthen, and common or
gray stoncware.
Pumps garden engines, and hydraulic rams.
Rock and roet diegers excavators.
Root beer and other small beer.
Salt
School seats and desks black boards and globes
Of all kinds.
sleds whe ebarrows, and hand carts and fence made
Of wood
Soap, common brown, in bars sold for less that sew
en- cents per pound
Saws (buck.)
Saws for cotton gins, when used by the maker in the
of gins.
soles and heetaps made of India rubber or Of India
rubber and other materials.
Shirt fronts or bosoms, wristbands or cuffs for shirts
except those made of paper.
Spiral springs used in the manufacture of furniture
Stove polish other manufacture exclusively of plum
oago.
Stump machines
Steel of all descriptions, whether made from muck
oar blooms, slabs, loops, or otherwise.
Scythcs. 6
Straw or binders boards and binders cloth )
Tags for merchandise and direction made of cloth,
paper metal, whether blank printed
Thimble-skeins or pine-boxes made of iron.
Tinware for domestic or culinary purposes.
Ultramarine blue.
Varnish q
Wagons, carts and drays, made to be used for farm
ng or lumber purposes. a
Washing, mangling and clothes wringing machines =
waShbOardS spinning and flax wheels hand reels, =
land looms, wooden knots
1t is provided that the exemptions aforesaid shall in
II be confined exclusively to said articles in the
tate and condition specified in the foregoing eaumer
ton, and shall not extend to articles in any other
orm, nor to manufactures from said articles i
INCOME &
The following is the new income tax which is fixed
uniform rate, and goes into effect March l. 1867
he tax incomes for 1866 is to be levied the dav this
ct goes into effect: 81
Income from gains profits from property, rent in q
crest dividends salaries from any profession trade
r any employment, tax on the amount so derived y
yer one thousand dollars, of five per cent y
And III addition to one thousand dollars exemDt u
ON income tax, all NATIONAL State, county and mum
pal taxes paid within the year shall be deducted
som the gains profits income of the person who has
ctualy paid the same whether such person be cwner
enant mortgager losses actually sustained during ~
year, arising from fires, shlpwrecks or incurred in ~
'ade and debts ascertaned to be worthless but ex-
hiding all estimated depreciation of values and losses
thin the year sales of real estate purchased two a.
ears previous to the year for which income is esma-
I'd; The amount actually paid for laboror interest BY
person who rents lands hires labor to cultivate
md, or who conducts any other business from which hi
coue is actually derived; the amount paid by anv m
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