Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — HAS THE WAR TAX HIT YOU? IT WILL [ARTICLE]

HAS THE WAR TAX HIT YOU? IT WILL

Jasper County People Are Paying The New Tax and Several Are ■ „ Quite Hard Hit. ———— 'the ‘’war” tax in time of peace is being felt in Jasper county. \ The blanks began to arrive the first of the week and cigar dealers and poolroom owners have been paying, up and others are getting ready. The tax is figured out for the fraction of the year from Nov. Ist to June 30th, which is eight months or two-thirds of a year. Every- cigar and tobacco dealer and there are a great many in Jasper county, will have to pay at the rate of $4.-80 per year, provided his sales total S2OO or more for a year. For eight months the tax will be $3.20. Each poolroom proprietor pays $5 for each pool or billiard table. H. W. Kiplinger has eight and the tax would be S4O for the year. For the eight months it figured $20.67. F. A. Bicknell paid half that amount on his four tables. Contracts, ' deeds, mortgages, drafts', telephone, and telegraph messages, express packages,, insurance premiums are all taxed and every person will learn before long that there is a war over in Europe and will be wondering why we are required to pay the tax. Possibly with a republican tariff a tax might have been necessary, but it is the first time in the history of the country that a tax of this kind became necessary in a time of peiicg. .