Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-24
REVENUE OFFICES ARE
WORKING OVERTIME
People Subject to Emergency War
Taxes Defer Settlement
to Last Minute.
l'II'TY PER CENT TO BE ADDED
Retail Dealers in Tobacco and Cignrs
Must Settle This Week-Dispensers
OF Vino Are Required to Stamp
Bottles.

Owing TO the Increase in the work
occasioned by the emergency war taX
collector of Internal Revenue K. e. i.
Moncurc has found IT necessary to
make several additions to his staff
and local employees Will be compelled
to labor overtime for tho rest of the
week In order to care Tor the thrush
OF business. The following appoint
nients were ANNOUNCED Yesterday bv
Collector Moncure:
William A. Anderson to be division
deputy collector, with headquarters at
Portsmouth.
w. II. Lane TO be division deputy
collector. with headquarters at Peters
burg.
w Il. Goodwin and Norman Brown
10 3" office deputies. assigned to duty
In the local office
The work in connection with carry
ing into effect tho new war revenue
TAX has been heavy. The ma jority Of
inc persons and firms subject TO the
special taxes have DELAYED making
their payments, and all OF the worIt
VIII be crowded Into this week Ycs-
terda| the office Of Collector Moncurc
was crowded with q line OF men walt
ing assessment. or desiring copies Of
me special stamp tax Law. III add
ton TO making all Office men WORT
after hours, Collector Moncur,. has or,
dersd field men to stop their work
ana come into the Office To take care
OF the vast volume of business
100 DEALERS IN
TOBACCO MUST FAY UP
TO give an idea of tho cnormi;v OF
the task caused by the cmcruenc,.
measure, there arc 100 dealers in TO-
paeco IN TINS city alone who must nav
II special tax OF from $3.50 10 o'JoG
n year. The assessment this ycnr 70
; ohiy based on eight months. as tho
payments do not extend beyond tho
end Of the fiscal year
me present year has been a hard
one tor I've local Office. The new in
conc tax law became cTectiy. md
| caused T. hugo Increase i'm the work
Now the special stamp tax Is cffectIyc
ana on December a series of doom
| mentary and adhesive stamp taxes viii
turthcr Increase the duties of Tho
employees
All OF the special taxes must be paid
before December l, or "A penalty az "a
per cent will he added. Banks. the
aires. brokers. commission merchants
noolrooms. bowling alleys and tobar.
co dealers, shippers and ntasutactur
ers arc affected by the new law. There
are many concerns here who MIL nav
the tax of S2,4aG.
The documentary taxes Will NOT ro
into effect until next week. and, there
fore. viii not have to be paid until
Then Most of the collections on this
tax will be made by means OF stamps.
which VIII he attached to legal n;,d
business papers.
DISPENSERS Of WINES
MUST STAMP DOTTIES
Dispensers of wines and liquors from
hotties or other containers from which
drinks are sold must see that such
bottles or containers bear one of the
special stamps required by the cmer-
sency war revenue measure. The
following letter on tho subject has
been received by Collector Moncurc:
"Itcplying TO your letter of Novem-
Der is, you are Informed that bottles
or other containers from which wines
and liquors arc sold by the drink
must he stamped. and the person afilx-
writing or stamping his initials and
the date on it, When the bottle or
container is empty, the stamps must
DC completely effaced and obliterated
and new stamp AFFIXED at each re-
fIling.
(Sgncd) 't! FLETCHER,
Deputy Commissioned"
The stamps TO be affixed to each
hottie from one .quarter of Il pint up
on still wines are at the rate OF 9
cents a quart. and on liquors from n
half-pint up at the rate of cents
quart. Sparkling wines are taxed
20 cents n quart or fraction thereof.
Preparing budget OF Needs.
The Administrative Board entered an
order yesterday directing the heads OF
the departments under It's control TO
present to the board not later than
December Is an outline of their bud
wants for fo1hA The fcpo rtp mani