Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
To Double Tax on
 Tobacco, Theaters
BILLIARD AND POOL PARLORS
 AND BOWLING ALLEYS
IN NEW REVENUE BILL
House Ways and Means Committee Also Agrees on One Per Cent Tax on Retail Sales of Mail Order Houses Doing More Than $1oo,ooo Annual Business.

Washington, Aug 1-Doubling of the present special taxes on manu- lecturers of tobacco, cigars and cig- arettes and increased taxation of brokers, theatres and other amuse- ments, billiard and pool parlors, bowl ing alleys and capitalization of cor porations, were agreed on by the house ways and means committee today in framing the $S 000 900 900 revenue bill new tax of one per cent on retail sales of mail order houses doing more than $100.000 annual business, was an nounced, Pullman seats and berths and passenger rates will be subject to a uniform tax of eight per cent Stamp taxes were undisturbed.
 Chairman Kitchin after the com mittee adjourned, summarized the sit uation as follows:
 Kitchin Summarizes Situation. We have put tax of one per cent on retail sales of mail order houses l that has above s100,00 annual busi- i ness. We have increased the special taxes. Brokers now under a special tax | of $50 will pay an annual tax of $100 | and if they are members of a stock 1 exchange, or board of trade engaged l in buying and selling. will pay $250 annually. We have increased the tax on pawnbrokers from $50 to $100: ship brokers from s20 to $50; custom house brokers from s1O to $50.
 Taxes Doubled.
 Theatres, including moving picture shows, museums, and concert halls having a seating capacity of not over | 250. will pay an annual tax increased from $25 to $50; seating capacity be- tween 250 and 800, increased from $5C to S100: 800 to 800 seating capacity in
 creased from $75 to $50 and all ovel
 700 capacity increased from $1o0 tc S200 annual tax. We have doubled the
 present special taxes on theatres cir
 cuses, bowling alleys. billiard and poo
 places, and on manufacturers of to.
 bacco, cigars and cigarettes.
 Taxes on Exchanges.
 We have put a new specia! tax or
 sales of seats on stock and produce
 exchanges of ten per cent on the sal, price of the seats. and on annual due
 Of these exchanges a tax of 20 pc
 cent. on the amount of the dues Thi is to put them on the sa me basis a clubs and other organizations alrea5I put under tax.
 Pullman seats and herths are un , der present law taxed ten per cent . and passenger rates 8 per cent. of tn f amounts paid. for tickets or coupons We today agreed to make the tax o , both of these per cent. This was a the request of the director general c
 railroads, who wanted the taxes O
 them made the same to simplify tn e mileage coupons about to be issued We imposed a tax of 10 per cent o Y the sales of yachts.
 8 Stamp Taxes Unchanged. we considered the stamp taxes i e the present law and they will renal
 as at present.
 proposal to tax cotton was reject = ed almost unanimously. ReDresentativ = Moore, Pennsylvania, proposed a ta of $3 per bale, which he contende s would produce s33, ,000 900 a year rev n enue but it's opponents immediatel, a suggested tax on grain an anthracit Il coal and similar articles produced i e the north. Only Representatives Moor
 and F'airchild, New York voted for i t MT. Moore also proposed a tax 0
 dogs, which the committee voted dow