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Show yfrlri but In ohanjeinit the manner of' Iev Infc importnnt luxe. i '"Krank reci;nilion .of tha situation, the committee nays. "brinR reallma-, tion that the country mut continue for povcral ycjira to brnr a jhavy bur- : den of taxation." HEQUEST VIEWS Oil REVHI OF TAXES Official, of U. S. Chamber of Commerce Ask Referendum Refer-endum Vote on Important Impor-tant Federal Question MOItK llniii 1-UK) commiTi-i'iil ami imlustrial orimuizatioiiN throiijfhoiit tin1 coiititrv, incltnl-. incltnl-. injr the Salt Luke City Commercial Commer-cial club, liave been asked by the Oi amber of Commerce of the I'niled States to reRistcr In a notional refer- endum vote their views on the quea-' quea-' tlon of revision of feiler.-il taxation i laws. Circulars asking for en opinion opin-ion have been sent out by the lontt club to the 1500 memlers. The result of the vote will be sent to WaehinMton. The vote is on fifteen proposals for radical changes in methods of levy, advanced by the national chamber's i mtnin -i -i ..h...i i lis report after Dearly a year's study of the aul'Jei t. 4n aefldinic-out the rejinrt fnr a vote the board of directors of the natTohaT chamber makes it clear that the board itself neither approves the recommendations recommen-dations nor dissents from them. The sole purpose is to obtain the opinion of the country's business orvanlx.it ions and not to get approval of the report Itself. Only the vote of the memner organlzationa can commit the national i chamber for or against any proposition. proposi-tion. Meanwhile, the report and its conclusions rest solely upon tha authority au-thority of the committee' that signs It. PROPOSALS SEGREGATED. The different propositions upon which the chamber's members are Im?-Ing Im?-Ing asked to express their views are: "V The excels profits tax should be repealed. il. Revenues now derived from the excess profits tax ahould be obtained mainly from taxe eon incomes. "III. There should also fee excise taxes upon some articles of wide use but not of first necessity. "IV. Hhoiild a sales tax las levied Instead of the taxes mentioned in pro-posala pro-posala II and lit above? "V. Hhould a tales lax be levied In addition to such tsxes as are mentioned men-tioned In propositions II and III above T "VI. Members voting In favor of oueetlon IV or question V above are asked to Indicate below the type of aalea tax they advocate: i , (a) A renernl turnover tax. b) A limited turnover tax. cl A retail aalrs tax. "VII. There ahnuld be a moderate and graduated undistributed earnings tax or corporations. "VII I. Each Individual stockholder of a corporation should pay his own "IX. Income fro many new Isauee of securities which may lawfully be made subject to federal tax should be taxable. "X. American cltisena resident abroad should be exempt from the American tax upon Income derived abroad and not remitted to the United cUatea ' "XI. I'roflta arising from sale of capital assets should be allocated over the period in which earned and taxed at the rates for the several years In the period. "XII. An exchange of property of a like or similar nature ehould be considered con-sidered as a replacement. "XIII. Net losses and Inventory losses In any taxable year should cause redetermination of taxes on Income of the preceding year. "XIV. Ascertainment by the government gov-ernment of any tax based on Income should precede payment. "XV. Admlniatratlon of nlrome taxation tax-ation should be decentralized." CONSIDERED IMPRACTICABLE. The proposition with regard (o the sales tax la Included In those to be voted on, despite the judgment of the committee that such a tax la Impracticable, Imprac-ticable, because of the Iwde Interest In proposals that have come from a number of quarters for a tax of this nature. The committee makes It plain that In Its opinion the government's expenses ex-penses will remain high for some time to come. With this In mind It sets forth that th erevislon It proposes Is rot aimed at reducing the amount of |