Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-09-15 | Page 1 | Made Subject to the Special Tax

MADE SUBJECT TO THE SPECIAL TAX internal Revenue Commissioner Takes a Swipe at Manufacturers Manufacturers of Patent Medicines Composed Principally S of H Red Eye I A I ASHINGTON Sept 14 The commis commissioner commissioner WASHINGTON V V of or internal revenue today rendered a decision that will seri serf misty affect a number of at patent medicines composed lamely of ot distilled liQuors He has reversed a ruling of his bis department made many years ago and now decides that the manufacturers of those these medicines must take out licenses lIcense as rectifiers and liquor dealers and that druggists and others handling them will wilt have hans to pay pa pathe the usual retail liquor dealers license The commissioner In a letter Jetter of in instruction instruction instruction to collectors of internal reve revenue nue flue says sa s that there are a It number of com corn compounds compounds pounds on the market going under the names of medicines that are composed chief chiefly of spirits without the addition of dru drus s or medicines In sufficient sufficient clout quantities to change chang materially the i character of o the He II authorizes collectors to impose Impost the special tax on manufactures Of ot every even compound com corn composed composed posed of distilled spirits even though I drugs have been declared to have hare been baan added thereto wh when n their presence CIO is not discoverable by analysis or it is found that the quantity quantify of drug in the preparation is so small as to have no appreciable effect on the liquor The same ruling declares the com corn commissioner commissioner missioner applies to every alcoholic compound labeled as a remedy for tor die dis diseases eases and containing In m addition to dis distilled distilled distilled j tilled spirits only substances or ingred Ingredients ingredIents which however largo large their quan quart quantity are not of a character to impart any medicinal qualities to the corn com compound pound To prevent injustice being done the ruling will not be put into effect until Dec 1 1905 1005 Some of the medicines are said to have immense sales in prohibition communities ties figures collected in Massachusetts h recently showing it is said that one ORB such advertised compound comp und with a high percentage of whisky whisk had been beon bought to the extent of bottles Jn In one year year ear in communities of ot one I New England state