The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-25
We HAVE SOME NEW TAXES
THEY WILL COME WITH THE NEW
TERRITORIAL BILL.
The War Revenue Taxes VIII Have to
be Paid on Good Many Kinds ut
business After June 10.

There will be something else go into.
effect In Hawaii on June 10 besides the
Territorial Act. The United states war
revenue act of June 10, 1895, viii go into
effect.
This act imposes a special war tax
on great many kinds OF business.
Some of the kinds of business men who
will have to pay 1t are brewers, bank
ers brokers, cigar, cigarette and tobac-
co manufacturers, and manufacturers
of proprietary medicines and perfum-
cry.
Certificates of stock on the organiza-
ton or reorganization of a corporation
will have TO pay stamp tax at the rate
of cents for each face value of 500.
and on the sale of stock, cents for
each 500 or fraction thereof. On each
sale or agreement to sell products OF
merchandise on an exchange or similar
piece, there Is a stamp duty of ! cent
for each 500 of value. Bank checks and
domestic drafts pay cents for each
500, and foreign bills Of exchange,
cents. Bills of lading or receipts other
than charter parties for merchandise
! for export, pay 10 cents each, and do
! nestle bills of lading, receipts or mani
tests, and each duplicate thereof, L
cent. Telegraph or telephone messages
costing Is cents or over, each cent
Bonds of indemnity pay so cents; GER
| tificates of profits and transfers thereof,
2 cents for each 500; port warden OK
| surveyors certificate 25 cents: charter
contracts or equivalents including re-
newals and transfers. or vessels eC-
/ ceeding 600 tons, $40, exceeding 300 tons
! IS; less than 800 tons, SO; brokers' note
| or memorandum of SALE 10 cents; con-
| veyance of realty, so cents for each $500
of value; custom house entry of mer-
! chandise, 25 cents where the value is
not over 500; SO cents where it is not
! over $780, and 81 where the value is over
$780, entry for withdrawal of merchan-
disc from customs bonded warehouse, So
| cents; life insurance policies for eacn
800, s cents; fire and marine insurance
half a cent for each 81 premium; leases
for a period not exceeding year, 70
| cents; not exceeding 3 years, so centss
| over years, 81 manifest for entry or
clearance of vessels for foreign port 81
! for vessels not exceeding 3OO tons; 81 for
| vessels up to 800 tons, and IS for vessels
over 900 tons; mortgages of either real
or personal property exceeding $1,000,
and not exceeding $1,000, 20 cents; on
each $500, additional, 25 cents; power OF
attorney or proxy for voting at any
meeting of any incorporated company
except religious, charitable, literary
or public cemeteries, 10 cents; other
powers of attorney, Is cents; protests OF
notes and warehouse receipts, 25 cents.
Then there are legacy taxes, finely
graded, rising in price according to the
distance of the relation between the tes-
Itator and the legatee. and highest where
the legatee is a stranger in blood to the
testator.
Tea imported from foreign countries
must pay 10 cents pound. Theaters,
circuses. bowling alley and billiard
tables all have to pay taxes.
It may be that a good many people.
will have to celebrate Admission Day
finding out just how much taxes they
owe the federal government