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

Ilawaii's revenue office presented
a busy scene today with TIE constant
ringing OF telephone, tn. click of type,
writer and the hum OF the mimeu-
graph bearing witness TO the fact
that instructions had been received
from Washington TO put tie new rev
enue law into effect Immediately.
Acting Collector Ralph :. 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 ciphcred out the
details Of the biggest revenue bill III
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
leave tonight for similar work on
Maui On Hawaii, August 5. Costa,
deputy collector, took up the new
tasks on adViCcs by wireless from this
office.
Here are some of the main feature;
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 pound.
The floor or retail tax fer small
dealers is 2i2 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 cents each
up to 10 cents, $40 per thousand;
to to 10 cents, $2.0U; 20 cents and
up, $3.50. Small cigars I2l2 cents a
thousand; small cigarettes, AZ cents
a thousand; long cigarettes, 70 cents
a thousand.
Manufacturers tax 80 days after the
law passed, October 4, viii be douOie
the foregoing tlgures. All tobacco
dealers must MAKE inventories tor
goods on band on or before beginning
OF business on October 4.
Distilled spirits, ii withdrawn from
dstilleries or bonded warehouses tor
other than beverages purposes, viii be
taxed $3.50 proof gallon, while for
beverage purposes the tax Will be
$500.
Floor tax, other than beverage pur
poses, $l.l0 a proof gallon; for beV
erage purposes, $40.
termented liquors manufactured
and sold after the date OF the law
are taxed So. This is just double the
original tax. The floor tax is $50,
which provision affects only brewers
such as the Honolulu Brewing com.
pany and agents OF brewers here.
On still wines, vermouth, cham.
payne, sparkling wines, liquors, arti-
fetal and imitation wines, manufac-
tured and sold after October 3, the
tax is double the present rate, the
floor tax being equivalent to the pres
ent tax.
Grape brandy for use in fortifica-
ton OF sweet wines viii yield a tax
of 80 cents PROOF gallon, and grape
brandy in sweet wines, held for sale,
10 cents a proof gallon. Grape
brandy withdrawn from fertilization
and not used to date, is to yield a tax
of 20 cents a gallon.
Syrups and extracts sold by man
producers or importers
are subject to tax at the following
rates: Selling price not more than
$1.30 a gallon, tax 5 cents per gal
Ion; over $1.30 a gallon and not more
than 81, tax s cents a gallon; 81 and
not more than SO, 10 cents q gallon;
So and not more than 81, Is cents a
gallon; 81 and up, 20 cents a gal
Ion.
Unfermented grape juice and soft
drinks Gncluding ginger ale, soda
water and carbonated waters and bev-
erages and carbonated acid gas
used in carbonating same, tax, l cent
per gallon.
Natural mineral waters and table
waters selling from 10 cents per gal.
Ion, tax, 1 cent per gallon.
Carbonic acid gas sold by manufac.
turers, tax, 6 cents per pound