Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
WAR REVENUE TAXES
PRINCIPAL ARTICLES WITH
TARIFF ON EACH.
Already the Money Derived Is sumciens
to Pay the Daily Expenses OF Our
Army and Nayy-The People Generally
Glad to Pay.

The new war revenue OIL As alleo"S 4"
effect and from Maine to Mexico the peo-
pie through direct taxes are paving the
expenses of the war with Spain. The Sec
rotary Of the Treasury gives the following
dates when the various provisions OF the
new revenue law go into ERECT:
July 1-Adhesire stamp taxea.
July AL special taxes.
Aug. 12-Adulterated flour tax.
June H-All other provisions OF the law.
The following is a list of the articles on
which taxes must be paid: Beer. banks,
deposits, checks, certificates Of debt, bills
OF exchange, bills Of lading, receipts,
drafts, brokers, amuSements, billiard Ia
bles, bowling alleys, tobacco, cigars, Gig
arettes, insurance policies, leases, custom
house manifests, mortgages, foreign pas
sage tickets, proxies, power OF attorney,
protests of notes, etc, warehouse receipts,
medicines, chewing gum, wines, petroleum
and sugar refineries, palace and parlor car
seats sleeping car. berths inheritances
and legacies, sales and transactions, tele-
phone messages. kilograms. indemnifylnG
bonds, certificates of stock, certificates of
damage. charter parties, contracts ana
brokers notes, fnemorandums of sale,
custom house entries and Withdrawals
mixed flour, tea.
The following list gives the principal
articles of consumption with the tax that
shall be paid by each. The revenue rails
I'd from this source Will approximate ST.
100000 a day:
Beer md Ale. SO barrel
Tobacco. ........ .........l@c a pound
Cigars. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ss3 per 1000
Cigarettes. ............ $500 per 1000
Bank cheeks. ..'........''.. stamp
Manifests of express package. .lc stamp
Long distance telephone call. ...... lc
Telegraph message. &c
Indemnifying bond. zoe
Life-insurance policy. for each 500. 1oc
Benefit Society Insurance-40 per cent.
of FIRST weeks premium.
Fire Insurance-On s-half of 1 per cent.
on zach dollar insured.
Lease year, 25c; 5 years, SOC; over
3 years, 81.
Mortgage-Under $500, csc; for each
$500 over 1900, 25c.
Passage to Foreign Countrics-Not ex-
cecding $50, 81; not exceeding $50,
as, over 800, SIS.
Patent Medicine-For each sc value, one
eighth of por cent.
Perfumery-For each SC value, one-eighth
of per cent.
Vino. lie a pint
| OH and Sugar-Refiners are taxed one
fourth OF l per cent. on gross receipts
exceeding &25O,0OO.
| Mixed Flour. ..4c y barrel
Aea .....'' '.... 1Vc u pOtihN
( The additional tax on all fermented Id
| uors stored in warehouses and already
stamped is to he assessed and collected.
Brewers are allowed ~ per cent discount
on stamps purchased. Other taxes that
| went into effect with the signing or the
bill are an additional tax of cents
| pound on tobacco and snuff, an addition
| al 80 cents a thousand on cigars ana
cigarettes weighing more than three
pounds to the thousand and an addition
| al so cents O thousand on cigarettes
| weighing not more than three pounds to
| the thousand. one ounce package OF
smoking tobacco. and one and two-thirds
| ounce, two and one-half ounce and
three and one-third ounce packages
of tobacco and snuff are author
lied in lieu of two, three and -four
ounce packages. Dealers having stool
OH hand in excess Of l.e00 pounds of tobac.
co, or 10000 cigars or cigarettes, stamps
affixed subsequent to April II at the ole
rate, must make returns to collectors
! within thirty days for assessment Of q
tax equal to one-half the difference be-
tween the tax already paid at the time
of removal from the factory and the new
| rate. The excess on hand only is to be
returned, and the tax will be assessed on
the excess. which will be paid to collect
ors aztec notice. No additional stamps
| are to be affixed 10 such stock on hand.
| Upon gross receipts of persons. firms.
| companies and corporations engaged III
| refining petroleum and sugar, or owning
or controlling any pipe line for trans
porting oil or other products in excess OF
s25o,Ooo. a tax Of one-quarter of l cent an
nually is imposed. which is now in effect.
Returns are 10 be made monthly.A An i'm
port tax OF 10 cents a pound is imposed
upon tea, which takes effect Immediately.
The following special taxes take effect
on and after July L: Bankers, gradual
ed, $50; brokers. $780, pawnbrokers, $40:
| commercial brokers, $780, custom-houso
broke re-, So: proprietors of tkeaters, SOD:
proprietors Of circuses, 500; proprietors OF
shows for money SO: proprietors OF bowl
ing alleys and billiard rooms, for each al
ley or table, IS; dealers in leaf tobacco,
graduated, minimum S.; dealers In tobac-
co whose sales exceed $4,000 pounds, $l2
manufacturers Of tobacco, graduated
minimum, S.; manufacturers of cigars,
graduated, minimum, Sc; manufacturers
and packers of mixed -four. sl2. The last
tax Is not imposed until sixty days after
| the passage Of the act, which would make
1t effective Aug IL. 1898. All persons en-
gagged in the business on that date are re-
ouired to make returns before the end of
| August and pay the special tax. reckoned
from Aug. !, 1898, to the first day OF July
following.
| Wall Street Hit Hard.
It Will delight the hearts of many per-
sons to know that the "cigarette fiends''