The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-04-23
FURTHER MISERY INFLICTED
ON Mr.. ULTIMATE CONSUMER
New Taxes on Luxuries Are Now In
Effect and Include Many
Articles

! Ine Dank rolls OF June grOomS,
unless they have already made 4
necessary purchases of conventional
jewelry needed to carry out the
wedding ceremony, will be hit little
harder than those of grooms who
were married before the first of this
MONTH The excise tax on jewelry
became effective April /, and from
now on the cost of wedding rigs. en-
gagement rings and all other jewell
ry, including watches and clocks,
will cost five per cent more.
All kinds of precious stones or i'm
itations. and In fact every kind of
jewelry, were increased five per cent
in price on the first of this month
and the jeweler must make a month
ly report to the internal revenue de-
partment. Unlike some of the other
excise taxes, the retailer must collect
the tax and turn 1t in and the amount
is five per cent of the dealers selling
price.
Nearly everything that can be
classed as luxury or semi-luxury falls
under the excise tax, and on May 1st
long list of articles will contribute
ten per cent tax on the selling
price.
The tax is only levied on articles
retailing above certain price
Among those taxed and the mini
mum price on which a tax Is levied
are the following:
Carpets and rugs, except rugs
made of wool, selling in excess Of
$5 per square yard.
Picture frames selling for over
$40.
yalises, travelling bags and suit
cases selling for over s25.
Purses, pocketbooks and handbags
selling for over $3.50.
Lamp shades. portable lamps. SELL
ing for over $25.
Parasols and umbrellas selling for
over 81.
Smoking jackets, bath robes. sell
ing for over $3.50.
Mems waist coats selling for over
$500.
Women's hats and bonnets sell
ing for over $40.
Mems hats selling for over s5.
Women's, mems and children's s
shoes selling for over $40.
Mems neckties selling for over 50.
Mems silk stockings selling for
over 81.
Women's silk stockings selling for
over 50.
| Mems shirts selling for over So.
Pajamas and nightgowns selling
for over SIS.
Petticoats selling for over SIS.
! tax of one cent on every twenty
five cent purchase of drugs, toilet
preparations. including perfumes.
extracts, toilet waters, hair oil, tooth
paste, toilet powders, pills, tablets
and medicines will be levied through
the drug stores or other retail houses
on and after May LIST.
On February 25, when the auto
mobile tax went into effect, manu-
facturers' tax of five per cent went
into effect on pianos, organs, phono-
graphs, phonograph records and all
musical instruments. All sporting
goods, including tennis racquets,
baseballs, pool balls, snowshoes and
similar goods started paying a five
per cent tax at the same time. Fish
ing rods and equipment for fishing
pays ten per cent manufacturers
tax. Other manufacturers taxes in
clude: Cameras, ten. per cent /:
films and plates for cameras, five per
cent; firearms, shells and cartridges,
ten per cent; hunting knives ten per
cent; burglars jewelry," includ-
ing knives, daggers, brass knuckles.
100 per cent; portable electric fans,
five per cent; thermos bottles, five
per cent; cigar and cigarette holders
and pipes made of meerschaum and
amber, ten per cent; slot machines
for vending purposes. five per cent;
slot machines for weighing purposes
ten per cent; hunting garments and
riding habits. ten per cent; articles
made mostly of fur, ten per cent;
yachts and motorboats and canoes
costing more than SIS, ten per cent;
toilet soaps, three per cent.