Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-06-17

ought to be the first of all rep ealed
1t applies to dealers and manufac-
turers Of all kinds-plumbers, butch
ers, brokers, and various employ
mentS.
GROSS RECEIPTS.
The tax on gross receipts is also
most oppressive form of taxa ton.
1t applies to the gross receipts of
corporations, transportation com
panies, railroad and insurance com
panies. If this tax was paid out Of
the accumulated profits Of those cor
porations, it might be, in the pros
porous condition Of the country,
right enough to continue it; but
this tax is at once charged over to
the individual. Every passenger
that travels on railroad pays. this
tax. The law so provides in words !;
aud, indeed, in some cases indivi l.
uals pay several times the amount.
The street railroad companies, in
order to cover the small fraction of
cent tax levied on them, have ad-
ded one cent to their fare. Nearly
all the street railroads in the United
States have done SO. So with in
surance companies. They always
add the amount of the tax to the
premium on insurance. This tax
on gross receipts is, therefore, a tax
on insurance and on the transp porta
ton of persons. This tax on gross
receipts yielded S6,3O0,99S last year
That is proposed to be repealed.
The taxes on lcgacies and success
sions have always been invidious
and odious. If they were taxes only
upon collateral inheritances, as upon
granddaughter who acquired an in
heritance by the death Of remote
uncle, there would be no great sym
pathy for the subjects of the tax
but the great body Of the tax is lev
led on the son who inherits from
father, the lineal issue or ancestor
; the brother OF sister. These class
es of legacies pay more than two
thirds of it; and the lineal issue
son, daughter. or ancestor, pay
nearly three -fourths of all the sue
cession tax. So that these are tax
es which are invidious and odious
and they are taxes most lmperfectly
+, collected. 1t would require an ar
my of officers to perambulate thi.
vast country to find out who died
and what was the value of his rea
t estate, and who inhereted it, wheth
+, er by will or otherwise. So W,
propose to repeal these taxes
They yielded about two and hal
e million dollars last year. -,E
The articles in schedule A, as it il
g called, billiard tables, carriages
3 gold plate, watches, &c, are mex
proposed to be relieved from tax
e In principle and theory it would b.
:, well enough to collect that tax, bu
: ityields us less than million dollars
t and it is proposed to abolish it. l
y throws upon assessors a vas
D amount OF work, and does not com
n pensate for the expense Of collec
n ton. We propose to repeal that
e and leave the watches and gold ant
e silver plate, which yield US very lit
. tie, to the State authorities.
+ The tax on passports, which i
r continued in the House bill, yield
e but 29,453 dollars. 1t is an invid
ious tax, and there is no occasion
u for continuing it; it is too small
!, The tax on salaries of Uuite
e States employees is a grossly un
!, equal tax, as it is now levied; be
i cause a clerk who is employed il
: the Departm ents here does not ge
e the benefit Of a deduction for tn
:, rent, taxes, and other exemption
q allowed to ather incomes 1t de
t nies to our own officers the sam
: exemptions to all other persons o.
II their income tax 1t is proposed
a therefore, By the Senate bill to re
pei.i this tax lay name and to reauir
"a the person feceiving an incom
from the G Government ia the way q
= salary T.; include it in his genera
: return, 50 that II he pays an ineom
+" tax. he pays Az income tax on hi
II Salart at the same lime lat he t,ay y