Show MUST ArX TO SELL MEDiCINE i f i Dealers Will Have to lay in Stamps by Dec 1 MANUFACTURERS ALSO HIT NEW DECISION WAIVES AS TO Internal aI Collector E H IL Cal received official Information y yos js from Internal Revenue abner John W V Yerkes in the matter oC of collecting license ta Ia front from dealers in ill patent indent medicines made largely of die dis distilled tilled spirits In his hi official circular the commissioner completely reverses his former decision This was to the effect that if these compounds were oro sold acid for medicinal purposes It would not be right to compel the sellers to pay tux tax The lie revenue collectors alt all over the tha country found It impossible to establish the fact that these drugs were ivere sold coid for beverages and as a consequence no tax could uc be collected In the circular received yesterday the commissioner tin the point as to beverages and orders the collectors to compel all dealers In drugs of the char chara a aCtor specified tt L pay the tax H It goes even further titan than this and requires that those who mix those these medicines must pay paya a rectifiers license and those who sell sil them in quantities above live gallons must pay a wholesalers tax tOA The retail rutali dealers license licence costs 15 S a year the rectifiers of less than hOO barrels postS costs and the wholesale liquor dealers license costs The now new order KOCS noes effect December 1 1305 Those who carry stocks of this kind after that date must take out revenue Hard on Prohibition Towns This order will affect more particularly small towns where prohibition exists and no are permitted to run In such pih es stocks of these patent medicine are carried in tho tue general stores and sow OId In immense quantities They are ara sold to temperance advocates among them large numbers of women Some of ot the tha more popular proprietary medicines contain from 28 to SO 50 per cent alcoholic while ordinary beer contains lees bees than 5 per cent The collectors are ordered by th the cir circular cular to send out notices to all dealers in inthis inthia this thia demanding that they I comply with the new ruling It id t under understood stood that the tho large manufacturers of patent medicines wilt ivill fight this ruling in incourt incourt court on the grounds that the compounds are arc sold for medicines and not for bever beverages apes ages The new ruling will have little effect In Salt Satt Lake as proprietary medicines here ar are sold almost wholly In the tho drug drugstores drugstores stores anti and those have retail license stamps already Many of the smaller towns of the state wilt will be affected |