The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-30
Get Ready 70 Pay Your War
Taxes, Some in Effect Now
Adhesive Stamp Levies, Which WIN Hit the Majority Of
People, Will Not Be Assessed Until
December
SPECIAL TAXES NOT TO BE IN FORCE TILL
December /


effect as to most Of its features.
The exceptions are special taxes in
Sec. 3 ON bankers, brokers and proprie-
tors of theatres and circuses and the
tax on tobacco dealers and manufac-
turers, which will go into effect by
special provision on November /, and
stamp taxes in Schedules A and Br.
The stamp taos are the ines that
win affect the average man on the
street. They will not go into effect un-
til December /. There are a few
other exceptions, but they are unim.
portant.
Adhesive Stamp Taxes Effective
December I.
The adhesive stamp taxes are the
ones which in most cases will fall
directly on the average citizen. Here
they are:
Bonds, debentures, certificates of
indebtedness by any association,
company or corporation. new issues,
500 par value, each Ave cents.
Sales or agreements to sell stock,
500 par value, each two cents.
Agreement of sale of products or
merchandise on exchanges, each
500, one cent.
u Promissory notes, except bank
notes for circulation and renewals,
each 500, two cents.
Bundles shipped by freight and
express, one cent.
Telegraph and telephone compan-
les, one cent on each message over
fifteen cents.
Senders Of telephone or telegraph
messages on each over 10 cents, one
cent.
Certificates of profits of corpora
lions, etc., and transfers thereof,
face value each 500, two cents.
Damage certificates, etc, twenty
Eve cents.
Other certificates required by law,
ten cents.
Brokers' note or memorandum OF
sale, ten cents.
Deeds or realty transfers valued
between 500 and $500, fifty cents.
Deeds do, each additional $500,
fifty cents.
Emery of goods at custom houses.
500 value, twenty-five cents.
Ditto, not exceeding $500 value,
fifty cents.
Ditto, not exceeding $500 value 81.
Entry for withdrawal of goods
from customs bonded warehouse
fifty cents.
Insurance of property, new or re-
newed policies, each 81. one-half of
a cent.
Policies of insurance or bond of
nature of indemnity for loss, each
81, one cent.
Passenger tickets by sea to foreign
ports costing less than $10,. one dol
lar.
Ditto, not exceeding $50. three dol
lars.
Ditto, exceeding $50, five dollars.
Perfumery, cosmetics, ETC., vase
line, hair dyes, tooth washes, grad
ed in values of five cents up to Is
cents, each five cents Of value, one
eighth of cent.
Ditto, valued from Is to rs cents,
|
i've Fights of cent.
Ditto, each additional % cents re-
tail, fve-eights of a cent.
Chewing gum, etc., valued less
than a unit, four-tenths of a cent.
Ditto, each additional 81. four
tenths of cent.
Voting powers or proxies, ten
cents.
Power to convey real estate, pro-
tests, twenty-five cents.
Palace or parlor car seat or berth,
one cent.
The conference committee changed
the telegraph and telephone tax to re
Quire the company to collect it from
the person paying for the message
In lieu of the word sender"
The Government will collect the
sleeping car ticket tax from the com
panies.
The tax imposed under the new Law
shall not be levied after Dec. 81, 1915
Taxes on Drinkabies.
The principal feature of the law il
the tax on beer, which will be $3.50 {
barrel. or SO cents more than is i'm
posed under the present law. The Ia,
is a stamp revenue, and is to be i'm
posed on "all beer, lager beer, ale
porter and other similar fermentet
liquor, brewed, manufactured. sold o.
stored in warehouse. or removed fol
consumption or sale within the United
States, by whatever name such liquors
shall be called"
The new law also taxes all stillet
wines, domestic and imported, wher
sold or offered for sale or consump
ton. as follows:
Per bottle of quarter pint or less,
IA cent.
Bottle containing more than one
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