Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-12
TAX on AUTOMOBILES
REDUCED 80 PER CENT
Exemption Clause In Revenue Bill
Knocked Ont by Finance Com
mittcc OF Senate
FARMERS ARE ASKED 70 PAY
Entire House Schedule OF Manufac.
ture OF Tobacco Approycd-Vari-
GUS BROKERS Will &c Assessed SOC.
and CircuscS $500.

WASHINGTON, October 1.-THE eS-
o-:!rt!oa which the House wrote in the
revenue bill TO save farmers from pay.
Ing the $40 year occupa tional tax was
str!c'en out by the Senate Finance
Committee to-day At the same time
the committee cut the automobile taxes
IN half. ana az most OF tho farmers in
the United States own automobiles, the
amount they will save on the automo-
bile tax will just atou, offset the $40
head tax.
Tho new automobile taxes TO be paid
~ the users OF the cars, as agreed to
b" The Senate committee. arc as fol-
lows: Twenty three horse power OF
thirty-hor$c power. SIC: between thirty
a!:d orty-horSc power, SD: over forty
horse power. SIS.
Electric automobiles will ply s. per
horse power. Instead OF 81. as fixed By
the House. and % cents for each 100
pounds OF weight. instead OF so cents.
The motorcycle tax OF 80 was left un-
changed
The exemption oc farmers was put
IN the bill! by the House as special
!sTor 10 the great agricultural popuia-
non. NO other industry WAS given an
exemption. and Senator'S Oh the Finance
Committee decided almost unanimously
,.nat the farmers should be asked TO pay
The tax along with every other pro
pr!ctor or a business. trade or profcs-
sion whose gross receipts arc 5000 a
yea-.
The COMMITTEES accepted wi,hou,
change a srcat many OF the sections
IN tho hin As written by tho House.
Among these was the entire schedule
" taxes. on the manufacturers OF to-
oacco. The section placing q tax %.
! cent tor ever 10 cents paid fcT pills.
tablets, powders. srups, tonics ana a,
.oaE lis, OF medicinal preparations
Known AS proprietary articles.
The committee adopted an amend
Encni to tho section relating to mcdi-
ci2es by cXeinptinS from taxation any
pills or other preparations which may
DC dispensed by n physician. dentist or
veterinary surgeon in the course OF
amendment was offered h.. Senator Dill
bingham. Of Vermont 1t Is designed
to protect tho physicians who dispense
medicines when calling upon Their
TANES IMPOSED UPON
TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS
The ,axas on tobacco manufacturers
arc AZ follows: Manufacturers whose
aanua! sales do not exceed 20 iO0
noS ant 80; mannfastprers selling be-
'nanuiacturerS selling between 100 900
and 100000 pounds, S2t; manufuctu-ors
selling more than 100000 pounds. is
who sell not moro than $1,000 GLARS
annually; s.: manufacturers selling he
.ween 10000 and 100000 cigars. S.:
.it' tiN so.cES SeilnS between 100 00n
ana 100000 cigars, $Io: manufacturer
selling between 20o.00o and 400 900
cigars, S2f: manufacturers selling no-s
than 100000 cigars. 10 cents pes 6oo
cigars: manufacturers OF cica-ettse
Weighing not more than three mounds
per thousand will pay at the rate OF
The tax on foreign cornora.ioos ~.
u for cach $1,000 OF invested cani,ai
was adopted. The tax OF 500 on brnH-
rs was reduced 70 $50, and an amend
yancinS scale from 500 up on pawn
brokers. the tax TO be graduated ac-
cording TO the amount OF business
ira nSa cted
The following taxes IN the House bill