McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-04-09
THE NEW REVENUE BILL
40 Adopted by House May lncreas
Revenue of State $5Oo,0OO,

Revenue OF STATE $ouo,uUO.
Under the new revenue bill as adopt
ed by the house Of representatives
on final passage, subcommittee Of
finance expects an increase of $780,
900 in the revenues of the state. OF
this amount 100000 is derived from
defendants in litigation.
Tax on undertakers in cities of $4,000
or more is raised from $50 to $1o0 a
year; cities of 10000 to $4,000, in
creased from $50 to $50; 10000 to TO-
900, $40 to $S5; 5000 to 10000, $40 to
$40; under 5000, S..
Moving picture theater tax was ar
ranged as follows: In cities under 5000
population, $40. Others between 5000
and 10000, $40. For five-cent theaters
with seating capacity of 200, per year.
$50; theaters with capacity of 800,
500; theaters with capacity of 400,
$125; for 10-cent theaters, with ca
pacity of 200 and less, $50; with ca.
pacity of 800, $500; with capacity of
400, $3.50.
Dealers in moving picture films were
assessed tax of $50 per annum.
The Pullman Sleeping Car company
tax was increased from $4,000 to $4,000
per year.
The following raises were made in
cases of litigation: Each suit by un-
successful party In courts of record
from $3.50 to SIS; each indictment or
presentnIent, from SIS to $3.50; each
appeal to the supreme court in Grim
inal cases, from $3.50 to $40; writ of
error or certiorari to supreme court,
frem SIS to $3.50. Representative Stew
art stated that this item alone would
mean $4,000 to the state.
Advertising companies, advertising
in street cars, in cities between 10000
and 10000 inhabitants, raised from
s25 to $40 per annum; in counties
under this population, from $3.50 to
$1,000.
Transient auctioneers in cities over
10000 population were raised from SIS
to $25 week.
Automobiles, garages or dealers were
raised in cities OF over $4,000 popula-
ton from SIS to 800; in cities be-
tween 10000 and 10000, raised from
$50 to SIS; other towns raised from
800 to $50; trucks and sightseers, not
taxed in 1909 bill, are taxed In thsi bill.
Sightseers in cities, tax $40 each
for capacity of eight passengers; cars
seating over eight, taxed SIS each.
Trucks were taxed $25 each. This in
cludes trucks for hire only.
Businesses hitherto escaping taxa
ton, but taxed in the present bill, are:
Barber shops, one dollar per chair;
Russian and Turkish bath houses, $l5
per anum In cities Of 10000 population;
in cities of less population, $40 year;
dance halls. in cities of 10000 popula-
tion or over, $50; in cities of less pop
ulation, between 10000 and 10000 pop
ulation, SIS; in towns. $l5.
Bottlers of mineral water hitherto
untaxed were imposed tax on a
graduating scale of population, $25.
SIS and $40.
Brokers licenses, except those deal
ing In futures, were decreased 33 1-3
per cent.
Circuses were raised from 500 to
5000 in large cities, and from SIS to
$3.50 in towns. Cities were also given
power to tax parades.
The only change made in the tax on
coal dealers was to decrease from $40
to SIS per annum those dealers hav-
ing less than ten wagons
Cigar stands were raised from $40
to SIS in large cities, and from S. to
$40 in smaller towns.
Coal oil dealers were increased in a
graduating scale of population from
$500, 5000, $3.50, SIS and $50, to $500,
5000, 5000, 800 and SIS.
Collection agencies were hit hard.
Those in towns of 10000 population or
over were raised from $40 to 500 and
in small towns from $40 to $50.
Soft drink stands were taxed SIS a
year. This is new item.
Feather renovators were increased
from $500 to $500.
The privilege tax on street railway
and light companies of Memphis and
Nashville was raised from $3.50 to
$1,000: In Chattanooga and Knoxville.
from $500 to $3.50.
Gas companies in Nashville and
Memphis were raised from 500 to
$1,000: in Chattanooga and Knoxville,
from $3.50 to s460.
Hat cleaning establishments. hith-
erto ontaxed. were assessed $40.
Itinerant medicine peddlers were
raised in Memphis and Nashville from
$40 to $3.50; in Knoxville and Chatta,