Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-09-23
SALE TAX PLAN IS
UP To THE SENATE
Finance Committee Drops Smoot
Substitute Measure.
WILL INTRODUCE HIS BILL
Utah Senator Is Given Permission to
Present His Plan to the Full Body
Measure to Pass Within
Month.

Washington, Sept. 20.-The fight for
adoption of the sales tax will be car
ried into the senate when the new tax
revision bill comes up for considera-
ton Senator Smoot of Utah, its lead
ing advocate, announced.
The senate finance committee
lodged action on the manufacturers
sales tax proposed by Senator Smoot
as a substitute for the revenue Dill
the committee has completed. After
discussing the plan for four hours the
committee agreed not to vote on 1t.
Senator Smoot then served notice
that he would offer the bill in the
senate as a substitute for the commit
tee measure. He said:
II will offer my bill as a substitute
for the committee bill when the reve-
nue. measure comes up in the senate.
I agreed not to have vote on 1T in
the finance committee, because | saw
that several members who favor the
. sales tax would not have voted for it
in the tax bill the committee is work
ing on.
Bill Gains Support.
"The sales tax is gaining support
every .day and we will eventually
come to it. Should the tax bill be APP
proved substantially as it now stands,
the necessity for a simplified system
of taxation will become even more APP
parent than it is now. We will con-
tinue our fight for it,"
The finance committee spent two
days considering Senator Shoots bill
before it decided not to act on 1T.
Senator Smoot explained his bill TO
the full membership of the commit
tee, several members having been alb
sent when the sales tax plan was first
considered on Saturday.
The Smoot bill in brief provides for
manufacturers sales tax OF 3 per
cent as the basis for simplified tax
system and the retention of existing
income, corporation, tobacco and in
heritance taxes.
The finance committee finally COM
pleted consideration of the tax sched-
ules for the revenue revision bill. The
existing tax on movie tickets or adj
mission to other amusements costing
10 cents or less was repealed. The
committee also voted to make the new
tax on hotel rooms charges to trans
tents apply to the entire charge m
stead of the amount in excess of SO
for individuals and So for two per-
sons in a room.
The tax of $6.40 a gallon which the
committee voted last week to impose
on all distilled spirits except those
withdrawn for industrial purposes
will not be included in the committee
bill, Senator Penrose said.
Measure to Pass Within Month.
Senator Calder, author of the
amendment to tax whisky for medi-
cine was authorized by the committee
to perfect the amendment and was In
structed to present it in the senate as
committee amendment that would
take precedence over others. .
The finance committee instructed
Chairman Penrose to report the COM
pleted bill when the senate reconvenes
tomorrow.
The bill will be enacted into law
within a month, Senator Penrose said.
A general understanding has been
reached with opponents of the excess
profits tax repeal and the income sur
tax reductions so that no attempt VIII
be made to delay the measure in the
senate. he added.