Show MERCHANTS MERCHANTS' LICENSES TOTAL YEARLY C ty Commissioner Karl A A. A Scheid In whoso whose hands the tho matter of ot the tho merchants' merchants license Is resting Is preparing pre pre- paring arin a n. st statement to bo be made to the commission shortly Statistics says saya Mr Scheid show that modern up to dato date cities do donot donot donot not charge chargo their merchants a special cial license for tor the privilege of or conducting con ducting a business That charged by Salt Lake City was started fifty fUty years ago aJo and has been made more moro to chi save 61 from year to 3 year ear earo Throe years a ago o it was reduced 25 per cent Last year was collected from tho merchants and this year there thero has already been paid in 17 Although h this amount represents sects half baIt tho the sum which should be paid in yet ct over two-thirds two of or the merchants havo have come como in and paid their business license This shows merchants who that it is the larger merchants are refusing to pay at nt this time lime said Mr Schell I Although h experts have 1 found that thata a n merchants' merchants tax is 15 an nn inexpedient and Impracticable one ono yet it will probably be found impossible to abolish abol ish fah it in Salt Lake Lako until January 1 1918 I 1 shall make male definite to the commissioners within tho next ten days Stud Study on the tho subject has forced me to conclude that a n merchants' merchants tax may mav not be a n necessity in Salt Lake City after the affairs of ot the tIle present year ear are concluded but since this years year's finances were based on its collection tho the merchants' merchants tax will doubtless ho bo paid under protest by the remainder of or the business men and the whole matter adjusted later |