Show Bill Placing Teeth in State Tax Law by Joint Committee The Holbrook btu bill to place teeth In the tax enforcement laws was va reported favorably by the joint revenue and taxation committee of Utah's legislature Friday following a public hearing While the whole committee agreed to report the measure favorably the rUt rift between the senate and house was indicated again when the senate members mem memo bers bels bersot of the group were undecided as asto asto asto to whether to report the measure favorably avor or to merely present it to the upper house The Tho measure Introduced in the sen zen senate ate by Senator Ward C. C Holbrook D. D Davis provides that the state tax be collected from jobbers as a means of ot curbing tax evasions and to reduce the cost of collection It was drafted by the state tate tax com mission I Senator Holbrook and R loscoe E E. E Hammond member of the tax commission com mission appeared before the committee com corn in behalf of the measure while John R R. Moser president and manager of Hemenway it Moser Cigar company com corn pany and Richard M. M Williams manager mana ger of the William Villiam Stickney Cigar company opposed it I The jobbers told told the the committee the thel bill would make it IL necessary for wholesalers to break brenk the seal on each carton of in order to affix the stamps to each package They contended that deteriorate rapidly and that such action would place Jobbers in 11 a position to suffer a great loss Proponents of the measure argued that the bill would curb tax evasions and would reduce the cost of coUe collee collection tion providing the state with much more revenue than it now requires |