The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
GREAT REVENUE


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on each 10 cents charged for ice cream.
ice cream sodas, sundaes, and similar re- /
freshments If eaten where sold.
Tobacco and cigars:
Tobaccos AreNGiven.
Cigars weighing not more than three
pounds the thousand s15O per thousand
thouse rate So; more than three pounds
SO: Is to 20 cents $12; and over 20 cents SIS |
Cigarets not over three pounds thou |
sand s. s6Ms three pounds
papers in books of % to So " cent; 80
to 100, ! cent; over 100, y cent for each
Admission and dues:
On the Theater Tickets.
The conferees cut. to 10 per cent the
20 per cent theater taY they ego had ID earlier
sell tickets at an excess Of SO cents over
tax Of 10 cents of the excess: If the ex-
cess is over 30 cents, a so per cent tax.
a gardens ns and "a res pay tax of
Symphony orchestra and entertainments
given for charity or religious purposes are
| initiation fees over $40 pay the same, but
| plan are exempted from both taxes.
| Excise taxes:
Auto trucks are taxed 3fper cent of the
| sale price and other automobiles, except
| tractors, per cent Tires lear per
cent tax.
! Then on the Pianos.
| Pianos organs fother than pipe organs),
piano players. graphaphones and talking
| Sporting goods Of ali kinds 10 per cent.
per cent; candy, per cent: Photographic
films and plates, per cent: guns and
! shells. 10 per cent; hunting knives. 10 per
cent; dirks. daggers. sword canes and
stllettoes. 100 per cent.
| ties, per cent; meerschaum pipes, 10 per
| cent; slot machines. per cent; liveries.
articles made of fur. 10 per cent: yachts,
and motorboats, 10 per cent: toilet soaps,
l.: per cent: sculpture paintings and an
| or imported. 10 per cent.
| Luxury taxes:
| Luxury Gets Fit Hard.
| These are based upon the theory that
beyond a certain price, most of the ordi-
nary articles of clothing and use become
s ev after May aI Of 10 eT
$40: trunks over $50: vaiises. travelling
purses. .pocketbooks and shopping bags
over $50; portable lamps over s25: UNI
house coats and smoking jackets $3.50 :
| men s waist coats sold separately from
suits " women,s hats over SD mems hats
! slippers over SO; neckties over s.; mems
hose e 81; women's over 2: mems shirts
wear over 90: kimonos, petticoats and
selling price OF any article exceeds the
specific amount.
Jewelry, watches and clocks pay per
After May. motion picture exchanges
pay per cent on the monthly rental of
films. Movie men who exhibit films pay
per cent of the rental or license value.
Perfumes. toilet waters and cosmetics are
price, are pills, powders. salves, ONT
ments and all patent medicines
| Special taxes:
The Special Charges.
Business tax of 81 for each 81 coo of can
ital stock over $4,000; broker tax $50; If
broker is a member of an exchange he
: pays 800 if his seat is worth $1,000 to
s., 600, and $50 if it is worth more than
$1,000. Pawn brokers pay 500: ship brok-
ers 500: custom house brokers 500 theaters
seating up to go pay $50; seating $50 to
900 pay 500; seating more than 500 pal
5000 In towns of 5000 or less, these rates
;Circuses pay 500; bowling alleys and
billiard parl9rs $40 for for each alley or table
tomob1le carrying more than two and less
than seven and $50 for bigger automobiles.
sales are under $4,000 pounds pay SC: be-
tween $1,000 and 100000 pounds $12; be-
tween 100000 and 100000 pounds s24; and
over 100000 pounds S24 and at the rate
Of Of 1G cents per 1000 pounds of excess over
Cigar makers whose annual sales are un-
der 10000 cigars pay 81; 10000 to 100000
ray So; 100000 to 100000 pay So. and
so; over 10000, $2f, and at the rate Of 10
| cents per 1000 of the excess over 100000.
+. Stamp taxes:
T. Stamps Bonds.
On bonds and debentures. 5 cents for
each 800 of value; on indemnity and Sc
eurity bonds, so cents; stock certificates,
3 cents on each $100 for new issues and
2 cents for each 500 on sales or trans
500; deeds so cents on transactions of
each added $780, =: WAREHOUSE, rec e iS S5
cents for FOO: so cents up to $500 and
over $500. 81: transoceafic passenger
and over $50, So.
Proxy for voting. 10 cents: power of at
lpack: parcel post packages which the
postage is 20 cents or more, cent for
each % cents; on all insurance policies,
| cents on the dollar of the premium. when
resident of the United States and not
| signed by an American agent of the in
+ Tax on child labor:
| On Labor of Children.
This tax is 10 per cent on the entire net
profits of any business in which children
under II years or employees between II
to 1G work more than eight hours a day.
of the employ are punishable by a fine
of from SiOO to $1,000 or Imprisonment for
three months or both.
| Advisory boards:
The bill creates an advisory board of
Tsix to take up and decide knotty points
and income tax sections. The conferees
| struck out of the Thomas amendment tax
ing campaign contributions 100 per cent
and also the second class mail provision
which would have continued increased
postal rates =, Al postal rates go back to
bone dry.
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