Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-05
VAR TAXBILL
NOW EFFECTIVE
IN TERRITORY
Local Revenue Office Sends
Men Broadcast to Begin De-
tail Work on inventories

Hawaiis revenue office presented
busy scene today with the constant
| ringing Of telephone, the click OF type
writer and the hum of the mimeo-
graph bearing witness TO the fact
that instructions had been received
from Washington to put the new rev
enue law into effect Immediately.
Acting Collector Ralph S. John
stone received notice OF the change
in a lengthy cable yesterday after
noon and it was not until late at
night that he had ciphered out the
details OF the biggest revenue bill in
the country's history.
Action was immediate, however. J.
Brooks Brown, member of the local
staff, was sent on the evening boat
to Kauai to begin detailed work on
inventories and w. G. Ashley, Jr., will
leave tonight for similar work on
Maui. On Hawaii, August S. Costa.
deputy collector, took up the new
tasks on advices by wireless from this
office.
Here are some of the main features
OF the war tax bill, according to the
acting collector:
Tobacco manufactured and sold
80 days after the passage of the
act now has TAX of ) cents a pound.
The floor or retail tax for small
dealers is 212 cents, just half that OF
manufacturers.
The floor tax for dealers in cigars
and cigarettes is governed by the
retail prices per cigars and cigar
cites. Cigars selling over 4 cents each
up to 10 cents, $I.5O per thousand;
to ! to 10 cents, 500; 20 cents and
up, 500. Small cigars l2l., cents q
thousand; small cigarettes, AZ cents
a thousand; long cigarettes, 81 cents
a thousand.
Manufacturers tax 80 days after the
law passed, October 4, VIII be double
the foregoing figures. All tobacco
dealers must make inventories for |
goods on Land on or before beginning |
ot business on October 4.
Distilled spirits, if withdrawn from
1stllleries or bonded warehouses tor |
other than beverages purposes, VIII be
taxed 1920 a proof gallon, while for
'$AS+S3S Phl PO0SO lIlC IDA W LII US
$500.
Floor tax, other than beverage pur-
1cses, $1.1U proof gallon; for bep-
'rage purposes, $2.1O.
Fermented liquors manufactured Il
md sold after the date OF the law
ire taxed SIS. This is just double the
original TAX. The floor tax is $3.50, II
which provision affects only brewers
ucn as the Honolulu Brewing com.
amy and agents OF brewers here.
On still wines, vermouth, cham.
agne, sparkling wines, liquors, arti.
lclal and imitation wines, manufac-
ured and sold after October 3, the
Ak is double the present rate, the
lcor tax being equivalent to the pres
Mt tax.
Grape brandy for use in fortified.
on of sweet wines will yield a tax
30 cents a PROOF gallon, and grape
randy in sweet wines, held for sale,
D cents a proof gallon. Grape
randy withdrawn from fertilization
nd not used to date, Is to yield a tax
20 cents gallon.
Syrups and extracts sold by man.
lecturers, producers; or importers
re subject to tax at the following
ties: Selling price not more than
80 a gallon, tax cents per gal
n; over $3.50 a gallon and not more
an 81, tax 8 cents a gallon; 50 and
It more than So, 10 cents a gallon;
and not more than 81, Is cents a
lllon; 81 and up, 20 cents a gal
n.
Unfermented grape juice and soft
INKS Including ginger ale, soda
ater and carbonated waters and bev.
ages and carbonated acid gas
ed in carbonating same, tax, cent
r gallon.
Natural nnneral waters and table
aters selling from 10 cents per gal
q, tax, cent per gallon.
Car6onic acid gas sold by manufac-
rers, tax, 6 cents per nound