The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-05
INVENTORIES FOR
WAR TAXES must
Be MADE AT ONCE
Instructions Regarding coIlec-
tons Received From Washing
ton BY Local Revenue Office
MANY COMMODITIES ARE
ON LISTS RECEIVED
liquors, Tobaccos, Soda Water,
Syrups, Extracts and Even In
nocent Grape Juice Affected

'.. .MAr4 takes are ialfeauy DelnR COL
lected or designated for collection in
Honolulu and throughout the Islands,
two long pages of eabled instructions
concerning the new war tax bill, signed
by President Wilson on Wednesday,,
having been received yesterday by Act.
ing Collector Of Internal Revenue Ralph
tombstone, and all dealers, particularly
in liquors, wines, cigars, cigarettes and
tobacco generally, requested to make,
immediate inventories Of all stocks ON
hand. .. .r..E. .... .. IS e7.'.s a..r
Agents Of the internal revenue de.
partment were sent by Mr.. tombstone
to Maui and Kauai last evening and
the representative at Hilo instructed by
wire TO proceed immediately TO lay the
foundation Of his taxes from the Big
Island %. -, 49,: =, &c.. -.
There are many changes in taxation,
rates, received in the cabled instruc.
tons rs compared with the original
bill considered in congress, and the
comparison Of these and working out
the instructions to travelling agents oc-
cupied the acting collectors entire
time yesterday afternoon. fg
Privilege Taxes -. ,t
Even the delectable bottle of soda,
water was not omitted in the desire
TO obtain taxes for war purposes, and
hardly an item of the things which are.
now to be considered as actual luxur-
les were left out Of the long lists, for
Uncle Sam s war chests must be kept,
filed, and smokers and drinkers, par
ticulnrly must now not only pay for
their cigars and cigarettes and their
hard and soft drinks, but also pay for
-
Natural mineral waters and table wa
ters, for teetotalers and families who
do not use the harder liquids, must
now help Uncle Sam, when they use
these products of Mother Earth. While
there may not be many users Of snuff,
yet Uncle Sam has placed this sneeze
pTOvoker as a luxury.
Under the title of distilled spirits,
such manufactured products, according
to Collector tombstone s instructions,
if withdrawn from distilleries OF. bonded
warehouses, for other than beverage
purposes, will be taxed $500 per proof
gallon, and those Withdrawn from the
same places for beverage use, the tar,
is 1920 per proof gallon. .. ~
The floor tax on such distilled spir.
its, which means such material in, the
hands of dealers and ready for sale,
for use other than as q beverage, tax
$40 per proof gallon, and for bever-
age use, So. 10 per proof gallon.
The exception allowed retailers will
be sixty gallons. Rectifed spirits cnll
for ten cents per proof gallon, this be
ing q reduction from. fifteen cents as
mentioned in the original bill.
Beer Going Up
ITnloe Earnanta1 lnnnra oil mann.
featured and sold after October 3, the
tax is SO per barrel, raise of $3.50
a barrel over the original bill figures.
The floor tax is $3.50 barrel. This
latter provision affects only brewers,
such as the Honolulu Brewing Compa'
nv, and agents Of brewers here such as
the Rainier Company Of the Coast.
On still wines, vermouth, champagne,
sparkling wines, liquors, artificial and
imitation wines, manufactured and sold
after October 3, the tax is double the
present rate, the floor tax being equiya'
lent to the present tax. The exemption
allowed is twenty five gallons.
Grape brandy for use in fertilization
of sweet wines, win yield tax of 30
cents proof gallon, and grape brandy
in sweet wines, held for sale, ten cents
n proof gallon. Grape brandy with
drawn from fertilization and not used
to date, is to yield tax of twenty cents
q gallon.
Syrups and Extracts
Syrups and extracts sold by manu-
facturers, producers or importers are
subject to tax at the following rates.
Selling price not more than $3.50 a
gallon, tax five cents per gallon; over
81 30 gallon and not more than 81,
tax eight cents gallon; So and not more
than So, ten cents gallon; 50 and not
more than -, tax fifteen cents gallon;
Sd and up, twenty cents gallon:
Unfermented grape juice (of the Will
liam Jennings Bryan description),
soft drinks, including ginger ale, soda
water, etc, and carbOnated waters aud
beverages, and earbonated. acid gus
used in carbonating same, tax, one cent
per gallon. -
Natural mineral waters and table
waters selling from ten cents per gal
lon, tax one cent per gallon.
Carbonic acid gas sold by manufac'
turers, tax six cents per pound.
Tobacco VIII Cost More
The fellow who drops in at the cor
ncr cigar store, or the little japanese
and Chinese stands where boxes are
carefully displayed to catch the eye or
smokers, or signs chits at his club
for smokes, will probably hesitate now
and then when he wishes to replenish
his stock of smoking materials, and
may resort to the good old corn-cob
pipe again to keep down expenses, II
is highly probable that there will be.
good sized army of "resolutioners' :
who swear off on both tobacco and 4
drinks. fer tn" prices will certainly be
advanced.
On tobacco there is to be an addi-
tonaI tax Of two and one.half cents
per pound. It vas four cents in the
original bill, and the reduction appar-
emily was made when the congressman
felt they would be hitting themselves
bit hard, for tons of the weed go up
in smoke in the Capitol at Washington
every year.
The new tax on cigars is governed
by the prevailing rate of retail prices