Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — A Few Mexican. Taxes. [ARTICLE]

A Few Mexican. Taxes.

Every inhabitant of the republic .who §eUs. goods to the value of over S2O must give to the buyer “an invoice, note or other document accrediting the purchase,” and affix to the same and cancel a stamp corresponding to the value of the sale. Sales at retail are exempt from this tax, and retail sales are defined to be "sales made with a single buypr, whose value does not exceed S2O. The reunion lu a single invoice of various parcels, one of which does not amount to S2O, but which in the aggregate exceed that quantity,” remains subject to the tax. Retail sales in the public markets, or by ambulatory sellers, or licensed establishments whose capital does not exceed S3OO, are also exempt. ■ Tickets of all descriptions—railroad, theater, etc.—must have a stamp, as must each page of the reports of meetings, each leaf of a merchant’s ledger, day or cash book, and every cigar sold singly, which must be delivered to the .buyer tn a stamped wrapper. Shies-of imported spirits pay 8 per cent, on the duties levied on their importation, and a half of 1 per cent, in addition when retailed. Domestic spirits pay 3 per cent, when sold by producers or dealers at wholesale, and a half of 1 per cent, additional when sold at retail. Gross receipts of city railroads pay 4 per cent., public amusements, 2 per cent. Upon the amount paid for entrance; playing cards, 50 per bent.—paid in stamps—on the retail prl’ce, and manufactured tobacco a variety of taxes, proportioned to quality and value. Mercantile drafts are taxed at $1 on every hundred—Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly.