Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-10
STILL FINDING KINKS
 IN WAR REVENUE TAX.
"Wet Goods" Brought From Stock
 Room For Sale Must be Stamped.

Saloon keepers have just learned of another wrinkle in the emergency war tax" and coming directly after movi-g g picturs managers and p:y pri- tors had announced that they intend- ed to be officially infordmed as to whether the were subject to para graphs and under section 3 of the law, it has occEsioned general surprise.
 The Situatio-i practically amounts to this: Any saloonkeeper who uses part of his establishment for the sale of liquor and part for a stock room and iappens to move any of the stock to the saloon proper, according to the law special stamps. Revenue Collector J.. J. Walsh of Hartford has GsUt on to Washington and received the following order. In part it reads:
 Taxable goods in the stock room are not required to be stamped until tion. When, tfersore. the taxable goods are removed to a retail room or department aud sold CT offered for sale or consumption. the same must be tax paid and stamped Bar bottles or other containers from which sales by the drink a1e made must be stamped and the stamps be complete ly effaced and obdterS&te5 when emp tied. New stamps must be affixed at each refilling. If sales by the drink are made from large coz tainers, such as wine kegs or barrels they must be fl lied from large unstampde contain CTS, such as barrels of wine, but the necessary stamps be affixed to the bottles or jugs.
 One saloonkeeper informed Inter he would put up a sign reading Not for Sale' over the stock to indicate that it had been removed temporarily from the stock room, but the latter gave warning that he could not get around the law in this manner
 Up to last Saturday night, Mir. Walsh said about 70,000,0Ve war tax stamps have been sold in the Connect fcut district, which includes Rhode Is- land. He could give no idea of the total value or these stamps at this time.
 The amount of tax to be paid on caused some confusion on the part of merchants. As an illustration, MT Walsh said, 6 box of tooth powder marked on the packages to sell at 25 cents is sold at that price by some dealers while others cut the price 5 or ce/s. In e s~y case, Collector Walsh said, the tax must be paid ac- cording to the marked retail price on the container, regardless of what it may be sold for.
 The collector also pointed out that in no event will an ordinary postage
 
 stamp Persons using postage stamps will be required to pay the tax over again with the proper stamps. In some instances, Mir. Walsh said, per sons have asked to use the old Span iSh-American war stamps which they have on hand. These stampsh he said are worthless tor any purpose and are not redeemabIe
 Collector Walsh has given out the following notice:
 By special ruling of W. Fl. Os- borne, commis ssioner of internal rev enue, l yin date all special tax re- turns November 30, until such time as the office is able to handle appH- cations promptly, excsct in cases where I find that the SD, aial taxpayer has made no effort to file his returns prior to that day. all cases where merchants are unable to secure docu- mentary stamps for bills of Iading this of1ce will permit shipments to go forward, providing the shipper shall keep careful record of the same ana the stamps can be affixed or canceIl- ed when receiS ed"