Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13
WAR REVENUE TAX
SOMETHING YOU'LL FIND HANDY
FOR REFERENCE.
WHAT AMENDED LAW FAYS
List of Things That Will Require no
Stamps-New Tax on Brokers'
Good Change Goes into Effect Soon
Government Officers Getting
Ready.

lulS Is luG last mOulu VI IHS OIu
war revenue tax. July l the amended
law will go into effect, reducing the
governments annual income about
s45 900, 900. Revenue officials Of the
government, in Washington and all
over the country, are busy as bees
getting ready for the coming change,
the letters of instruction are being
issued right and left. In order to
present the changes in the law in
brief and convenient form, the inter
nal revenue bureau has prepared the
following summary, which should be
cut out and saved for future reference.
1t gives all necessary information:
REPEALED.
These items have been repealed out
right
Bank checks, cents.
Bills Of lading for export, 10 cents.
Bond or obligation by guarantee
company u of l cent on each dollar.
Certificates of damage, 25 cents.
Certificates of deposit, cents.
Certificates not otherwise specified
10 cents.
Charter party, So to $40.
Chewing gum, cents each 81.
Commercial brokers, $40.
Drafts, sight, 2 cents.
Express receipts, cent.
Insurance-Life, s cents on each
500; marine, inland, fire, " cent on
each 81; casualty, fidelity and guar
antee, u cen ton each 81.
Lease, Is cents to 81.
Manifest for custom-house entry
ST to S..
Mortgage or conveyance in trust
- cents for each $1,000.
Order for payment of money on
sight or on demand.
Perfumery and cosmetics, 1s cent
for each cents.
Power of attorney to vote, 10 cents.
Power of attorney to sell, rs cents
Promissory notes, 2 cents for each
$500.
Proprietary medicines, IS cent fol
each 5 cents.
Protest, % cents.
Telegraph messages, cent.
Telephone messages, l cent
United States money orders, 2 cents
for each $100.
Warehouse receipts, % cents.
MODIFIED.
(These items have been modifed.)
Beer, 81 per barrel and ~ per cent
discount, changed to $1.60 PEI barrel
and 71a per cent. discount repealed.
Bills of exchange, foreign, cents
for each 800; changed to cents fol
each 500.
Cigars weighing more than
pounds per 1000, $3.50 per 1000;
changed to So per 1000.
Cigarettes weighing not more thar
pounds per 1000, $3.50 per 1000;
| changed to, valued at not more thar
| 50 per 1000, Is cents per pound
| valued at more than 81 per 1000, 81
cents per pound.
Cigars weighing not more than
pounds per 1000, 81 per 1000;
changed to Is cents per pound.
Conveyance, SO cents for each $500;
now exempted below $4,000; above
$4,000, 25 cents for each $500.
Legacies-Law modified so as to ex
clude from taxation legacies of chart
table, religious, literary or educationa
character after March /, 1901.
Orders for payment of money by
telegraph, etc, issued by express com
panies, etc.. drawn in but payable out
of United tates, 2 cents for each 800
Passage tickets, 81 to S.; now ex
| empted below $50 in value, for each
| $50, so cents; exceeding $50, in add
ton thereto, so cents.
Sales of products at exchanges,
cent for each 500 retained, but sales
of merchandise in actual course OF
| transportation exempted from tax.
Tobacco and snuff, II cents pei
pound; now, discount of 20 per cent
allowed