Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-30
TAX ON PARCEL POST
IN EFFECT TOMORROW
All Packages of 25 Cents or
Over Subject to 1-Cent
Revenue
PLAYING CARDS ARE HIT.
MANY Other Articles Also Affected by
Ruling-Doubt About Checks
and Drafts

peginning tomorrow, all parcel post
rockages will be subject to a tax of one
cont when the transportation charges are
,venty-five cents or more. and playing
cards will bear an additional five-cent tax,
according I, the provisions of the war
,ox law of 1917. effective December I. The
TAX is to be paid in the form of stamps
,,bicb are now on sale at the internal rev.
onuo Office in the Federal building,
Doubt as to whether drafts or checks
,,vablc otherwise than on sight or de-
,nand are to be taxed was expressed today
H., Federal officials. The bill to levy two
asrt tax when the check or draft did not
xrocd 500 and two cents for each addi-
tional 500 was defe lted on the floor of the
IIouse. but although defeated opinions
AFTER MS to whether or not 1t was legal.
Collector of Internal Revenue Ephraim
I,ederer is awaiting ruling from Wash
ington.
The following amount in stamps Will
,,v. TO be placed on all documents ana
articles listed below:
On each 800 or fraction OF the face value
of bonds debentures. or certificates of in
debtedness, issued on and after tomorrow
bv any person. corporation partnership, or
association; five cents. Every renewal of
AZ foregoing shall he taxed as new issue
Bonds for indemnifying any person or
ornoration who shall have become bound
or engaged as surety. and all bonds for the
aue execution of any contract or duty or
a;,o and all other bonds, with the excep-
zion of those that may be required in legal
nroceedings, fifty cents.
IN each original issue of certificates of
.,l bv any association or company
,,hethcr upon organization or rcorgani-
,ntion, five cents for every 500 of face
value or fraction thereof. Where capital
stoclx Is issued without face value the
SI,a
stamps representing the tax imposed under
tbis subdivision of the law. should be at
tached to the stock books and not to the
certificates issued
For every 500 or fraction of the face
value of all sales, agreements to sell, mem
oranda or deliveries of sales, or transfers
of legal titles, two cents Where such
shares of stock are without par value, the
tax will be two cents on the transfer of
each share. The same tax applies to the
sales of produce or exchange.
A tax of fifty cents is placed on con-
yeyances which exceed the sum of 800 and
do not exceed $500, with an extra tax of
fifty cents for each additional $500 or frac-
tonal part
Entry of any goods at the custom House
either for consumption or warehousng and
not exceeding 500 in value, twenty-five
cents If the value exceeds the above
amount the tax will be fifty cents and 81
will be the levy should the value of the
goods exceed $500. An Withdrawals from
the Custom House will cost fifty cents each.
One dollar Is the amount of tax that
will be placed on a steamship ticket which
costs the purchaser $50. If 1t costs more
than $40 and less than $50, the purchaser
must pay SO. while S5 will be the sum ex-
tracted if the purchasing figures total more
than $50.
Proxies. except religious or educational
will be ject to a tax of ten cents and
the power of attorney faces Il tax of twenty
five cents
All parcel post packages will be subject
to tax of one cent each when the trans
portaton charges are twenty-five cents or
more.
Playing cards, containing not more than
fifty-four cards to a deck Will II ave to
pay tax of five cents in addition to the
other tax imposed under this law.
The law is exceptionally stringent im re-
gard to those who try to evade 1t, and II
reads that any evasion will be considered
a misdemeanor and fine not exceeding
$1,000 shall be imposed or sentence to
not more than six months Imprisonment,
or both, at discretion of the court.