The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-10
NEW WAR TAX WILL EXTEND INTO FABRIC
 OF EVERY HOME IN
 THE UNITED STATES
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Liquors: Distilled spirits s1oO, ooOo; rec ss7 eco 900; wines. $6oOo,OO0. Soft drinks, syrurs, etc, $200o0,o00.
 Cigars, sl1,000,060; cigarettes S25, coo, ,O0O; tobacco, $39,0coo0O; snuff, $2,O0O,00O; ciga- rette papers. S2G0000.
 Stamp taxes, including documents and playing cards, s33, coo, 900; increase in GUS | toms duties, $200, ,000. GOO; increase in first I class mail matters, $70.o00O00; in second 1 class mail matter, sl9, 900, GOO; transporta- ton, freight bills, s77,5oo000 passenger tickets, $75,000,0G0 express bills $15 900, ,0OO; pipe lines, $44500; seats, berths and state roc ms, $50, coo.
 telephone service, $3o,OO0.O .Oo0; telegraph and telephone messages, s7,0OO 900; advertising, s7.5c0,000; insurance, $5,O0O,000; automobiles, trucks and motorcycles, s6S, ,0o0, eco; tires and tubes. S12,500,000 musical instruments. phonograph records, $7,000, 0oO; motion pie ture films $7000,00O; jewelry, $500 oOO; sporting goods, golf clubs, baseball bats, billiard and pool tables and balls, s, ,OOO,- 00O
 Pleasure boats, s5o0,OOo.
 Perfumes and cosmetics, $4,750,000. Proprietary medicines, sS5CO.OOO Chewing gum, sl,0000o0 admissions to
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 Dues in clubs and other origins, $l5,5O0,- GOO; war estimate tax, s6,GO0C0o (estimated, however. that the increase will yield s3S- 000o when in full operation). Virgin island internal revenue, $aO009. Country newspapers gain by revised provision in the postal rate section of the | bill. which was made to provide that the zone rate of postage of second class mat ter shall not affect existing laws as to free circulation and existing rates on second-class mail matter within the county of publication.
 HARDEST FIGHT One of the hardest fights on the bill. 1t is predicted, will center about the in creases in the excess profits tax. Rep resentative Fairchild of New Yor'y, who opposed these increases in committee. and other representatives will cary the,r opposition to the Senate if necessary. Much confusion arose among members over the new income tax schedules, which also may meet stubborn opposition. Com mittee explanations of the involved lan-
 guage of the bill show that the practical operation would be as follows: It proposes a normal tax of ? per cent on individual savings incomes between 5000 and 5000 if single. and 5000 and
 $40O0 if married or the head of family. In addition normal tax of ?. per cent would be added in the case of larger in comes. At 5000 an additional surtax, graduated until at S500,000 and over it reaches B per cent would be imposed. | A married man with $7500 income, for example, would pay tax of $205. It would be assessed in this manner: An
 exemption of 5000, a tax of per cent or
 $40, on the next 5000 up to 5000, tax of per cent on the difference between
 s40OO and $7500. or $40; surtax of 1 per cent on all over $50O0 or $25. A single man with $7500 income would pay $245. He would pay $40 at per cent on income between 5000 and 5000; s1SC at per cent between s3O00 and s750o. and surtax of $25 at 1 per cent on the s25oN above 5000. SurtaXes under the present law do not begin until $10G00 is reached and exemptions begin at 5000 and s4000 for single and married persons respectively.