Evening star., 1932-03-28
GARNER TO PLEAD
/. FOR TAX MEASURE
Speaker. Indicates He Will
Make Special Appeal, Prob
ably Tomorrow.
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substitute plan for the defeated sales
tax.
Upon emerging from the committee
room, the Treasury chief was asked II
the group was turning toward the ortgi-
nal Mellon Mills plan of heavy excise
taxes on selected industries.
1T seems so," he replied.
Mills declined, however, to forecast
whether that would be done. He ex-
planned that the committee had asked
questions relative to additional tax pro-
posals not included in the original
Treasury program.
Representative Rankin, Democrat,
Mississippi, q leader of the anti-sales
group, in a statement said the House
committed a terrible blunder," when
it inserted into the tax bill amendments
providing for high protective tariffs on
oil and coal"
These amendments should be Strick-
en- from the bill by all means and
shall bend every effort to that end"
he said.
In the first place a protective tariff
provision has no place in a tax bill
This bill is not designed to protect
special interests at the expense Of the
American people. The object Of 1t Is to
raise revenue. And even If q protective
Idiu1 were ever JuSJlllcu, ILLS WOulO pc
the worst time that could be found to
impose it."
1856, ZOO, 900 Estimated.
The American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, in its letter to House members,
proposed that revenue be made up by
assessments upon selected luxuries and
specified commodities. and excise taxes
upon certain imports.
1t submitted list of proposed sources
of revenue which it estimated would
bring in 856,000,000.
These included the estate, income
and surtax amendments which already
have been adopted.
On this list also were a number of
taxes on imports, several Of which were
rejected Saturday after independent
leaders had rallied behind Republican
and Democratic leaders to stop the on
rush of such amendments.
The letter went to the House while
Ways and Means Subcommittee was
working on list of taxes which 1t hopes
will replace the amount the House cut
out of the bill by rejecting the sales
tax. Consideration of the tax bill itself
was deferred for more than an hour
by the House while 1t worked on an
other measure.
List Proposed by Federation.
The list of taxes proposed by the
federation included:
Graduated gift taxes with an exemp-
ton of s5o000.
Boosting the corporation income tax
3 per cent above that carried in the
present bill.
Import taxes on copra, oils and fats,
oil-bearing seeds, cassava, tapioca, flour,
sago other tropical starches, jute, coffee,
tea and spice.
Special taxes on furs and fur goods,
on the rental Of safety deposit boxes
and vaults, on stock and bond trans
fers radios and monographs, radio ad-
vertising. cosmetics and perfumes works
of art and jewelry. on speculative trad
ing on the stock, grain and cotton ex-
changes; theater admissions in excess
of IS cents.
Stamp taxes on all agreements In
writing, contracts, mortgages, etc, and
on receipts or evidence Of the payment
of money.
Doubling the present second-class
postal rates.
In addition. the federation suggested
q revision of the present system of de-
dividual incomes, and proposed that the
annual cost of the Federal Government
be cut at least Sl50,000 900.
The letter suggested also that the
payment of the annual statutory re-
quirements on the Federal debt be sus-
pended for two years and then be re-
sumed at the rate of billion dollars
annually,
Federal excise taxes on bank checks,
automobiles and gasoline are opposed"
it concluded. Gasoline taxes have been
developed by and should be reserved for
the States. Automobiles are not a
luxury, but are a necessity on farms.
Bank checks are mostly issued by citi-
zens who have no ability to pay in
creasing taxes"