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Show SALES TAX ENACTED ON ON ALL UTAH LIQUOR UUh's liquor stores and package pack-age agencies started Thursday to collect the 2 per cent sales tax from all purchasers of liquor. Heretofore the liquor commissi slon has absorbed the tax. The change In policy followed an opinion from Attorney General Joseph Chez, " in which he held that liquor Is no exception and that purchasers of must pay the salte tax. A law which went into effect Thursday makest it mandatory man-datory for vendors to collect the full amount of tax from vendees. The liquor commission asked the attorney general If It would be possible, because of Increased markups on liquor and wines decreed de-creed by the last legislature, to absorb the sales tax within these markups. The markup on liquor Is 50 percent and on wines 40 per cent. |