Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-31
EXTRA TAXES
TOMORROW NOV. |
Uncle Sam Makes No Mystery OF
How He VIII Refund Loans.
PEOPLE TO PAY WAR BILL.
Every American, Young and Old, Will
Bear Part Of Nations Financial
Burden.


Your Uncle Sam is making no mys-
| terry OF how and wherefore he is GO
ing to get funds to run this war, and
pay back all he has borrowed through
the two Liberty Loans, and the. sew
eral more that are yet to come.
People who have been wondering
where Uncle Sam is going to get all
this money to pay the interest, not TO
mention the principal, will know all
about it tomorrow, when they begin
to help raise it,
The butcher, the baker. the candle
stiek-maker will all be taxed, and
then some.
Everybody is to be taxed Every
body is to help pay for this war
| Everybody the merchant who
thinks and spends in millions and the
youngster who hands in at the movie
show the dime a week his dad gives
him on pay day-is going to be call
ed on to fork up" for the war bill
beginning bright and early tomorrow
morning.
At work or at play, performing ne
cessary duties or participating in
pleasures, some sort of a tax is bound
to ledge in" as the most pointed sort
Of a reminder that the folks back
home can't enjoy undiluted the bene-
fits which the boys in the trenches
are fighting and dying to preserve
for them Pleasures, particularly, are
going to run up against the tax col
lector.
Uncle Sam, of course, trusting in
the patriotism of his nieces and
nephews, believes everyone is going
to pay the taxes cheerfully, because
they are necessary to win the war
But he has made provision for the
money slackers, and his agents have
been instructed to deal severely with
ali who try TO evade the provisions of
the tax laws.
Tax On Incomes.
In the first place every single per-
son who has an income of more than
81 600 year has to make provision
the payment of a tax upon that in
come This is geing to hit great
deal larger number OF people now.
with war time wages prevailing, than
it would have hit had the law been
passed a couple of years ago.
Then. the folks who go to the the
atres. to the moving picture shows, to
concerts, to all sorts of public enter
tainments and amusements, have to
take an extra dime or an extra quar-
ter along with them The tax law
provides after tomorrow for n tax of
cent for every 10 cents charged for
the seat Therefore, 10-cent NOV
ing picture ticket is going to cost IL
cents and 50 orchestra seat is going
to cost 20 cents additional Admis-
sion to cabarets is included in this
tax
Travellers are going to be hit hard.
For every ticket purchased for rail-
way journey costing more than 35
cents there is to be added a tax of 8
per cent The chap who travels to
the Laurel race track next year has
to keep an extra s cents on hand
when he counts out his money to play
on the ponies or he will have to
tread the merry ties back home. The
man who pays S565 for his ticket to
New York today will find that he
will have to dig up $611 for the re-
turn trip. Mileage books, purchased
before tomorrow, will not evade the
tax, as conductors are instructed to
collect the extra s per cent on all
such transportation.
Tobacco users have been paying the
extra pennies for a month. so the tax
feature which hits the smokers will
not come as anything new.
More For Bats And Balls.
Sporting goods of all kinds are tax
ed 8 per cent Future stars. playing
on the back lots next spring will have
to sell more rattle tickets than usual
if they hope to purchase all the bats
and balls and gloves they will need.
The sporting goods house, life every
other kind of a business house, is go
ing to add the per cent on to the bill
which the ultimate consumer re-
| ceives.
Graded taxes, reaching into big
/ percentages in the cases of large
amounts. will be imposed on all es-
tates which are settled up after to-
morrow; so the expectant sbenefici-
aries would do well TO stop and figure
out how much of the fortunes coming
to them viii have to go to the gov
ernment, before they start buying, in
anticipation.
The following are some of the
other persons who will feel the tax:
/ All corporations, joint stock COM
1 panies and associations.
All distillers. rectifiers, wholesal-
ers and retailers. holders of distilled
/ spirits intended for sale or to be used
for manufacturing purposes.
All dealers in fermented liquors or
malt liquors. wines. cordials. liquors.
| domestic and imported
All dealers in soft drinks, table
waters and carbonic acid gas
All carriers of freight. express or
passengers. and all operators of pipe
lines
All dealers in life. marine, inland,
fire and casualty insurance.