The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-07-01
Chewing gum, 4 cents each 81 value.

CneWIng gum, cents eacn 81 value.
Commercial brokers, $50.
Express receipts, l cent.
Insurance-Life, 8 cents on each
800; marine, inland, fire, IL cent on
each 81; casualty, fidelity and guaran
ty, Is cents on each 81.
Lease, Is cents to 81.
Manifest for custom house entry
81 to IS.
Money orders, 2 cents for each 500
Mortgage or conveyance in trus.
Is cents for each $500 in excess OF
81, 900.
Perfumery and cosmetics, 3-S cents
for each 5 cents.
Power Of attorney to vote, 10 cents
Power of attorney to sell, rs cents
Promissory notes, cents FIR each
500.
Proprietary medicines 1-S cent for
each cents.
Protest, rs cents.
Telephone messages, cent
Warehouse receipts, Is cents
OF these items the most important
in point of aggregate revenue are the
bank check tax, the taxes upon propri-
etary medicines, an those uron prom
issory notes, insurance an1 mortgag.
es-the bank check easily lea ling the
others with an aggregate yearly rev.
enue of some $1,000 900. Altogether
tn taxes repealel will save the pee
pie over $2z 00o,O00. The taxes m
legacies of an educational, religious
or charitable character were repealed
on March 1.
Additional to the above are many
taxes which will be reduced on July
chief among them being those on
beer, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and
snuff, conveyances, bill Of exchanges
sales Of products at exchanges, and
passage tickets. These reductions
will about equal the amount taken
away by the repeal of taxes altogeth.
er.
There will remain, however, a con.
siderable number of war revenue i'm
positions to remind the people that the
war" is still with us in the expen-
sive consequences which It has been
allowed to assume, and these taxes
are likely to remain for an indefinite
period. Such are the taxes on bank
ers' capital and surplus, on the issue
of stock, bonds and certificates of in
debtedness, on brokers, on transfers
of stock, on proprietors of circuses
billiard rooms, theaters, etc., on sleep
ing and parlor car tickets, and on in
land drafts and bills of exchange Par.
t:cularly fruitful of revenue IN these
times of corporate CONSOLIDATE ms and
sto' !: market activity ha,c hccE nc
ia. es on orig .,al issue Of stock .,
o;nds, and tr ..sfevs of stock--tax' $
which have ,vi1,l " not been lei, II
all to speak of. Quite likely many
customs taxes will give way or be
modified before these new internal
taxes are repealed, and the taxes or
stock may yet come into a more ex
IRENE use as a check upon the purely
gambling side of stock exchange trans
actions. It is probable that the FEEDER
al taxing power has moved into this
field to stay.
| The government will redeem stamp.
unused, but in the possession of pur
chasers after today, on certain condi
tions. Documentary and proprietar.
stamps must be presented in quaint
ties of 50 or more and within, twt
years of the time of their purchae.
and claims for recovery of none.
must be accompanied by the deai,M,'
and collectors certificate Of date an,
The amount, Of SALE Stamps NJ. il
the same condition as when slid vii
MT be redeemed unless their cond
ton can be satisfactorily explained
Claims for the redemption of imprint
ed stamps on checks, drafts, etc., mus
be accompanied by the imprinted ps
per and will pass through the collet
tor of the district in which the orde
for the imprinting of the stamps wa
purchased to the Office at Washington
where such claims will finally be SCI
tied.