The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
New Tax on Sales of Mail :, Order Houses Is Also
 Adopted by Committee
HIGHER RATES FOR
 MOVIES, POOL ROOMS
Pullman Seats and Berths and Passen- ger Rates Subject to Uniform Tax of Per cent--Stamp
 Taxes Left Undisturbed

Washington, August 1. Doubling of the present special taxes on manufacturers of to- bacco, cigars and cigarettes, and increased taxation of bro- kers, theatres and other amuse- ments, billiard and pool par lors, bowling alleys and capi- tallzation of corporations were agreed on by the House ways and means committee today in framing the $S,o00,000,000 rev. enue bill. A new tax of 1 per cent on retail sales of mail or der houses doing more than $100,000 annual business was adopted. Pullman seats and berths and passenger rates will be subject to d uniform tax of s per cent. Stamp taxes were undisturbed.
 1 Chairman Kitchin. after the commit tee adjourned, summarized the situa- tion as follows:
 We have put tax of per cent on retail sales of mail order houses that have above s1oo.ooO annual busi- ness. We have increased the special | of $50 will pay an annual tax of sI00 and If they are members of stock 1 exchange or board of trade engaged in buying and selling, will pay .s250 an- nually We have increased the tax on pawnbrokers from $50 tip s1oo; ship brokers from S2o to $50; custom house brokers from s10 to $50.
 MOVIE TAX DOUBLED
 Theatres, including moving picture having a seating capacity of not over zo0 people will pay an annual tax in creased from s25 to S50 seating ca pacity, 250 to soc, ncreased from $50 to s100; 500 to 500 seating capacity in- creased from $75 to s1Fo and all over
 500 capacity, increased from sfoo to
 s2oo annual tax. We have doubled the . | 5, cuses, bowling alleys, billiard and pool
 places and on manufacturers of to-
 bacco, cigars and cigarettes
 We have put new special tax on
 sales of seats sock and produce
 exchanges of 10 per cent on the sale
 price of the seats. and on annual dues of these exchanges tax of 20 per cent
 on the amount of the dues. This is
 to put them on the same basis AS clubs
 anG other organizations, already put
 under tax.
 PULLMAN TAX LOWERED
 ''Pullman seats and berths under
 present law taxed 10 per cent. and pas
 senger rates per cent. of tine amounts
 paid for tickets or coupons We to-
 day agreed to make the ,ax on both
 of these $ per cent. This vas at the
 request of the director general of rail- roads who wanted the taxes on theni made the same to simplify the nile , age coupons about to be issded. We
 imposed a tax of 10 per cent &l the
 sales of yachts.
 We considered the stamp taxes in the present law and they will remain as at present.,
 I Mir. Kitchin announced that under the faction of the committee so far the ex-
 else taxes would produce about Si,06o,- 000. 900. which includes beer. whisky, r automobiles. soft drinks gasoline own
 CTS and similar taxable subjects, This 1 is about rne-half of the amount ai- 2 lotted to commonly termed luxuries , ard nonessentiais. but MT. Kitehin said the allotted s2.000. 000, 900 under this head would he levied
 Taxation of tobacco manufacturers. , but not retail dealers was considered f by the committee today. The tobacco
 schedule. as adonted. provides that so
 days after the passage of the new law. 7 and thereafter on July of each year. { a special ta computed on the basis of
 sales of the preceding fiscal year will be made as follows:
 g TOBACCO TAXES
 Tobacco manufacturers with anhual : sales not exceeding 5o.000 pounds. ss a v year: 50o00 to 100000 pounds. SIP ' 100. DOC to 100000 pounds s24, all in :. excess of 100000 pounds. Is cents pei :. ilfen pounds; cigar manufacturers witf a annual sales not exceeding 50000 ci- 5 gars, s4; not exceeding 100000 cigars WI Ss. not exceeding 100000 cigars. SIP |. ! not exceeding 100000. SEA; above ao6. "a 00o 10 cents per 1000 cigars; cigaretts .s manufacturers. including small cigars "a weighing not more than three pound: 1, per 1000 cents for every 10000. ,f The special tax on mail order house,
 Twas unofficially estimated as capable if of yielding several million dollars O l., revenue and was adopted with practi ,e cally no opposition Proposals that if tax cf |. of per cent be imposed or
 lgross sales of chain stores ana $ c iper cent tax be laid on goods lnanu A.. factured hy concerns employing chils 2, labor under certain standard ages. wer'