The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
SPECIAL STATE TAXES
TAKE BROAD SCOPE
MANY BUSINESSES WILL HAVE
TO PAY WHICH WERE HERE
TOFORE EXEMPT.

Businesses which have heretofore
been exempt from paying the state a
specific tax will after today be in
cluded in the list which will have to
contribute revenue to the common
wealth.
For the year 1919 and thereafter,
until the law is repealed, the state
will take in a broad scope to get
money for its increased expenses.
The tax act of 1917, imposing special
or occupation taexs, which has been
continued in operation for several
years, was repealed by the last legis-
lature, and a new tax act passed,
which goes into effect tomorrow,
January 1st.
All persons engaged on the first of
January in the businesses taxed are
subject on that date to the tax. Per-
sons beginning after the first of the
year are required to pay the tax for
the full fiscal year before they begin
business.
Have to Register.
Persons taxed by this law are re-
CURED to go before the ordinary of
the county tomorrow and register
their names, the kind of business and
the place where it is to be conducted. |
The ordinary is required to notify the
tax collector Immediately of such reg
istration and at the end of each quar-
ter to furnish the comptroller gen
eral with a report of all registrations. !
Persons failing to observe this law |
will be guilty of a misdemeanor and !
will be punished accordingly. The |
tax collectors are required to make |
quarterly reports to the comptroller |
general of all specific taxes collected. |
Even book agents come under this |
law This should greatly reduce this
nuisance. The office of the ordinary |
will probably be immune from book !
agents after the first of the year, I'M !
less the agents are prepared to pay
their taxes for the year
Taxable Businesses.
The following is the list of taxable |
businesses under this act, which is ex-
pected to increase the states revenue
100000:
Abstracts, advertising, bill posting,
commercial agencies, detective agen-
cles, teachers agencies, amusement
parks, athletic clubs, auctioneers, au-
tomobile dealers, tents, ETC., baths,
ball playing and racing places, tables
for games, bondsmen, agents for
books, etc, bottling works, brokers in
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printing brokers, real estate brokers,
ticket brokers, burglar alarm agents,
playing card dealers, card writing
stands, carpet cleaners, cemetery
agencies, cigar makers, cigarette deal
ers, circusses, etc, clippings, coal,
etc, construction companies, house
builders, etc, domestic corporations,
foreign corporations, dance halls,
bowling and ten-pin alleys, etc.,
games, skating Kinks, directories, dog
and pony shows, dry cleaning, electri-
cal contractors, emigrant agents, en-
ployment agencies, fortune tellers,
horse traders, etc, gasoline and oil
wagons, insurance agencies, insurance
agents, ice cream dealers, itinerant
doctors, ETC., junk dealers, legerde-
main, lighting, lightning rods, live
stock dealers, loan agents, lenders on
wages, etc, matrimonial agencies,
cash register dealers, weighing scale
dealers, machines for calculating,
typewriters, slot machines, bicycle
dealers, machinery and implement
manufacturers and dealers, merry-go-
rounds, etc, motion picture supplies,
musical instruments, news dealers,
packing houses, pawnbrokers, photo
graphers, etc, peddlers of drugs,
soap, etc, stoves, clocks, etc, patent
ed articles, vendors on boats, picture
and frame dealers, monument dealers.
moving picture shows, pistols, knives,
etc, safes and vaults, sanatoriums.
soda fountains, street shows, etc,
pumping systems. trading stamps.
card trusts, etc, undertakers, ware
houses for cotton, warehouses for
merchandise, waterworks.