The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-31
TAXES FALL DUE
TOMORROW
Burdens Made Necessary by the War
and Which the Public Must
CheerfulIy Bear
ASSOCIATED Press)

| washington, oct. 3l.-1nlS Is Cne
last day of grace from many new war
taxes.
With the exception of increased
letter rates and tobacco taxes which
go into effect Friday, the special
stomp taxes on documents, legal in
struments and parcel post packages,
which go into operation December l.,
all special taxes begin to apply at
midnight tonight. They include:
One cent on each dime paid for
amusement admissions.
Three per cent on payments for
freight Transportation.
Eight per cent on passenger fares.
Ten per cent on payments for Pull
man and similar accommodations.
Five per cent on oil pipe line trans
portation.
One cent for each 20 cents or frac-
tion paid for express packages.
Five cents on each telegraph, tele-
phone or radio message costing fif
teen cents or more.
Various taxes on cigars, cigarettes,
tobacco and products.
Ten per cent on club dues.
Eight cents on each 500 of new
life insurance and one cent on each
dollar of premium paid on fire, mar
inc and other insurance policies.
Although tobacco taxes do not be-
come operative until Friday many
dealers have already advanced retail
prices in anticipation of the tax lev.
les. Other taxes of the new law, in
cluding those on hard and soft drinks,
incomes and war-excess profits, have
been in effect since the law was ap-
proved October 8, but in indirect
form.
On December /, the new stamp
taxes, including those on parcel post
packages, will be payable, putting
the entire law into complete opera
ton, except for increased rates on
second class mail, postponed until
July l next.
Increases in first class mail rates
probably will be most generally felt
by the people. The law provides that
the postage on letters. except "drop"
or local letters, shall be cents; and
that on post cards, including private
mailing cards, shall be one cent more
than heretofore This increase in
cludes so-called picture postcards.
The advances were made effective
thirty days after passage of the law,
and are construed by the postoffice
department to begin with letters and
postcards postmarked Nov. 2.
The increases also have been ex-
tended by department order to first
class mail to many foreign countries,
which, under postal conventions, have
enjoyed the domestic rates. The new
Scent letter rate, therefore, will ap-
ply to letters to Canada, Cuba, Mex
leo, Panama, England, Ireland, Scot
land, Wales, the Bahamas, Barbados,
British Guinea, British Honduras,
Santo Domingo, Dutch West Indies,
Leeward Islands, Newfoundland and
New Zealand. The postcard increase
will extend to Canada, Cuba, Mexico
and Panama, the only countries
which have enjoyed the domestic
postcard rate.
For consumers convenience, books
of postage stamps containing 3-cent
stamps are in readiness for sale and
the department has had printed thou
sands of 2-cent postcards. First class
mail postmarked tomorrow or any
time prior to 1901 a. m. Nov. 2 re-
gardless of time taken for delivery,
will be transmitted at the old rates
but that postmarked thereafter must
pay the increased toll.
Amusement admission taxes be-
come effective tomorrow at places
charging more than cents. They
are l cent for each ten cents or frac-
ton paid for such admission, payable
by the person admitted but collected
by the government from the amuse-
ment proprietor, required to make
sworn returns to the treasury. A flat
rate of l cent for each child under 12
admitted when children are charged
also is provided. Passes also are
taxed, except those to bona fide en-
ployees, municipal officers and chill
dren under IL, at the regular rate.
which also is extended to cabarets or
other entertainment in which the ad-
mission is included in the price paid
for refreshment, merchandise or SER
vice. Persons leasing theater boxes
must pay ten per. cent on their rental.
The new rates on cigars range
from rs cents to ST per thousand and
on cigarettes from 80 cents to S1.20I
per thousand. Five cents a pound is
the new tax on tobacco, snuff and
other manufactured tobacco, while
cigarette papers are taxed from Il
cent to l cent per hundred. As the
taxes are now reaching the ultimate
consumer, the raises mean about 1
cent more on five cent tobacco pack
ages, from 2 to cents on cigarette
packages and from l to 10 cents on
cigars.
The taxes on freight and passenger
transportation are also extended to