Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-12-09 | Page 16 | Would Collect Tax from Store Agents

WOULD COLLECT TAX FROM STORE AGENTS Merchants Complain That Many Can vassers Work In Besidence Districts Dis-tricts Without license Complaints have reached C L Whitney city license assessor afrainst tho pract ee of certa n local merchants in maintaining canvassing agents at work in the city without paying add t onal 1 cense tax as requ red by city ord nance He announced yesterday that ho would nndertal e an inestiga t on of the complaint today Accord ng to the complaining merchants there is one merchant m the c ty who though paying only a $30 annual license tax on h s down town store maintains twenty seven canvass ing agents throughout the city theso agents selling goods from house to house from stocks earned by them in add tion to the stock on hand at the central store on wh ch the license is paid It is contended that a license tax should be paid on each of the can vassers