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Show NEW REVENUE BILL KILLS STAMP TAXES WASHINGTON, Sept. 0. When the new general revenue bill became effective effec-tive today business men throughout the country were relieved ot the stamp taxes which they have been paying since December 1, 1914, and which were to have continued until December 81 of this year. The general revenue bill repealed the emergency revenue bill stamp taxes, and the internal revenue bureau has ruled that revenue stamps are not required after today. The stamp taxes repealed include those paid on telegraph and telephone messages, parlor car scats and berth tickets, bonds, debentures, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of stock, transfer bills of sale, promissory notes, express and freight, manifests and bills of lading, bonding instruments, conveyances, convey-ances, insurance policies, entry of goods passage tickets, power of attorney, protests, perfumery, cosmetics and chewing gum. |