The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-02
New War Taxes Which
Go Into Effect Friday
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phone or radio message costing fifteen
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 fire, marine, casualty and
other insurance policies.
Although the tobacco taxes, do not
become operative until Friday many
dealers have already advanced re-
tail prices in anticipation of the tax
levies. Other taxes of the new law,
including those on hard and soft
drinks, incomes and war excess
profits, have been in effect since the
law was approved October 3, but in
indirect form.
On December 1, the new STAMP
taxes, including those on parcel post
packages, will be payable, putting the
entire law into complete operation,
except for increased rates on second
class mail, postponed until July
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 postal-cards, including private
mailing cards shall be one cent more
than heretofore. This increase in
cludes so-called pictures post cards.
The advance were made effective thir-
ty days after passage of the law, and
are construed by the Post Office De
partment to begin with letters ane
postcards postmarked Nov. 2.
The increases also have been ex-
tended by Departmental order to first
class mail to many foreign countries,
which, under postal conventions, have
enjoyed TIE domestic rates. The new
Scent letter rate, therefore. will APP
ply to letters to Canada, Cuba, Next
CO, Panama, England, Ireland, Scot
land, Wales, the Bahamas, Barbados,
British Guinea, British Honduras.
Santo Domingo, Dutch West Indies
Leeward Iisland, Newfoundland and
New Zealand. The postcard incre -
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-cene
stamps are in readiness for sale and
the department has had printed
thousands of 2-cent postcards. First
class mail postmarked tomorrow or
any time prior to 1901 a. M, Nov. 2
regardless 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 10 cents. They
are 1 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 fiat
tax of cent for each child under IL
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
admission is included in the price
paid for refreshment, merchandise or
service. Persons leasing theatre
taxes must pay ten per cent on their
rental.
The new rates on cigars range from
25 cents to 81 per thousand and on
cigarettes from 80 cents to 81 20 pei
thousand. Five cents a pound is the
new tax on tobacco snuff and other
manufactured tobacco, while cigar.
cite papers are taxed from 1-2 cent ia
1 cent per hundred AS the taxes are
not reaching the ultimate consumer
the raises mean about / cent more
on five cent tobacco packages, from
2 to 5 cents on cigarette packages
Snd from to 10 cents on cigars.
The taxes on freight and passenger
transportation are also extended to
motor vehicle competitors of steam