Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — AUTOMOBILE WAR TAX [ARTICLE]

AUTOMOBILE WAR TAX

OWNING AN AUTO WILL BE A LUXURY INDEED WHEN WAR TAX BEGINS. Automobile owners in this county will be interested in the proposed war tax on motor vehicles which the government proposes levy-, ing. The senate finance committee, after eliminating the five per cent manufacturing tax on motor cars, in the war tax bill, agree to a federal license on owners of cars which will range from $7.50 to $25.00 per year, according to the original cost of the machine. The committee’s action would provide: “That on and after July 1, 1917, special taxes shall be and hereby are imposed annually on owners of automobiles and motorcycles, the rate of tax to bo based on each automobile or motorcycle as follows: “Motorcycles, $2.50; automobiles, listed retail price at time of purchase not. over SSOO, $7.50; over SSOO and not over SI,OOO, $10; over SI,OOO and * not over $2,000, sls: over $2,000 and not over $3,000, S2O; $3,000 and over, $25. “Provided that the spec'al taxes herein imposed shall not apply to unsold automobiles and motorcycles held for sa'e or to owners of automobiles or motorcycles used exclusive!/ for business, provide ! further that evidence of payment of the tax shall be by receipts or stamp to be a:*j<hed to automobile oi motorcycle? under such rule s and regulations as may be prescribed by the commission of internal revenue with the approval of the secretary of the treasury and provded further that the special paid tax within a fiscal year shall not be imposed again within that fiscal year if ownership changes.” Annual taxes on the different cars are as follows:

$7.50 —Ford, Saxon. SIO.O0 —Briscoe 4, Buick 4, Chevrolet 4, Dodge, Maxwell, Oakland 6, Overland 4, Reo 4, Saxon 6, ScrippsBooth 4, Studebaker. $15.00 —Briscoe 8, Buick 6, Chalmers, Chandler, Chevrolet 8, Cole, Franklin, Haynes 6, Hudson, Hupmobile, Jeffery, Jordan, King, Kissel, Lozier 4, Mitchel, Moline, National 6, Oakland 8, Oldsmobile, Overland 6, Paige, Premier, Reo 6, ScrippsBooth 8, Sterns 4, Studebaker 6, Sun, Velie, Willys-Knight. $20.00-r-Cadillac, Haynes 12, Lozier 6, National 12, Peerless, Stanley, Stearns 8, Stutz, Winton 33. $25.00—-Locomobile, Fiat, Marmon, Mercer, Packard, Pathfinder, Pierce, White, Winton 8.