Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-03
WAR REVENUE LESS
Extra Tax Taken off Everything
Except Tea.
SCHEDULE OF TAXES NOW In FORCE


and Taken Off of Some After Today
Official List of Taxes AS They
Now Stand.
Monday was the last one of the war
stamp taxes except on one article
tea and that tax will be removed
later in the year. Tea is made the
single exception because of the fact
that Just now is the time when the
importing of this commodity is at it's
height and change in taxes at this
time would doubtless cause much con-
fusion. This means decided reduc-
ton in the receipts of the internal
revenue department and reversion to
the conditions that existed before the
war. The tax on manufactured tobac-
co, which does not include cigars and
snuff, is reduced to cents per pound,
total of 3.6 cents being taken off, in
addition to "a cents last year. One Of
the larges reductions is in the tax on
beer. Sixty cents a barrel is to be
taken off, reducing the rate to 81 per
barrel. The last of articles from
which the revenue is taken would be
a long one, and even the revenue de-
partment does not attempt to give this
to the public, but submits list of the
articles upon which the taxes are not
collected. or will not be after today,
showing the rate as it was before the
war, except with regard to tea alone.
The schedule is as follows:
Rectifiers of less than 500 barrels
q year, rate of annual tax, 800.
Rectif1ers of 500 barrels or more a
year, 5000.
Wholesale liquor dealers, 800.
Retail liquor dealers, $25.
Wholesale dealers in malt liquors,
$50.
Retail dealers in malt liquors, $40.
Manufacturers of stills, $50.
For stills or worms, manufactured,
each, 500
Brewers, annual manufacture less
than 500 barrels, $50.
Brewers, annual manufacture 500
barrels or more, $100.
Manufacturers of filled cheese, $500.
Wholesale dealers in filled cheese,
$3.50.
Retail dealers in filled cheese, $12.
Manufacturers of oleomargarine
$500.
Wholesale dealers in oleomargarine,
artificially colored in imitation of but
ter, $3.50.
Wholesale dealers in oleomargarine
free from artificial coloration, $780,
Retail dealers in oleomargarine free
from artificial coloration, Sc.
Manufacturers of adulterated but
ter, $500.
Wholesale dealers in adulterated
butter. $3.50.
Retail dealers in adulterated but
ter, $4S.
Manufacturers of process or reno
waited butter, $50.
Manufacturers, packers or repack.
ers of mixed flour, $12.
Distilled spirits, per gallon, $11O.
Stamps for distilled spirits intended
for export, each, 10c.
Except when affixed to packages
containing two or more 5-gallon cans
for export, &C.
Case stamps for spirits bottled in
bond, 10c.
Wines, liquors, or compounds known
or denominated as wine, and made in
imitation of sparkling wine or cham
payne, but not made from grapes
grown in the United States, and IL
quors not made from grapes, currants,
rhubarb, or berries grown in the Unit
ed States, but produced by being recti-
fled or mixed with distilled spirits or
by the infusion of any matter in spir-
Its, to be sold as wine, or as substi-
tute for wine, in bottles containing not
more than l pint per bottle or pack
age, 10c.
Same, in bottles containing more
than pint, and not more than quart,
per bottle or package, Zoe
(And at the same rate for any larger
quantity of such merchandise however
put up or whatever may be the pack
age.)
Fermented Liquors.
Fermented liquors, per barrel, con-
tanning not more than 81 gallons, 81.
(And at proportionate rate for
halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, and
eighths of barrels)
More than one barrel of 81 gallons,
and not more than SO gallons, in one
package, So.
Filled Cheese.
Filled cheese, per pound, 1c.
Same, imported, per pound, Sc.
Opium.
Prepared smoking opium, per pound,
$40.
Tobacco.
Tobacco, however prepared, manu-
featured and sold, or removed for CON
sumption or sale, per pound, cents.
Snuff, however prepared, manufac-
tured and sold. or removed for con
sumption or sale, per pound, 6 cents.
Cigars and Cigarettes.
Cigars of all descriptions made of
tobacco, or any substitute therefore,
and weighing more than pounds per
thousand, So per thousand.
Cigars Of all descriptions made of
tobacco, or any substitute therefor,
and weighing not more than pounds
per thousand. Is cents per pound or
81 cents per thousand.
Cigarettes weighing not more than
8 pounds per thousand and of a whole
sale value or price Of more than 81 pei
thousand, SO cents per pound or s1.0s
per thousand.
Cigarettes weighing not more thar
3 pounds per thousand and of a whole