Show RES RE'S FINE CHANCE O REDUCE EDUCE YOUR YOURt INCOME TAX t duct luct All Luxury Taxes Prom From om Gross Income Is Proper Plan I By George B. B Waters Wafers JN N. N N. N E. E A. A Washington Bureau WASHINGTON SHIr Dec Dee Everybody Everybody uld ld keep account of ot the taxes he hes he's s 's tm on luxuries By so doing one himself money when It com comes s I to paying paying his Income tax to Uncle Sam The so-called so luxury taxes tases are called excise taxes and are levied against musical Instruments sporting goods chewing gum candy and on the finer tiner kinds of ot clothing furniture leather goods and the like Are Arc the luxury taxes deducted from the income tax one pays No No emphatically no That they are is the belief bellet in many quarters TAKE EM OUT OF INCOME But they a are deducted from th the amount of ot income in which one pays Not only ar are th these so taxes deductible but all taxes paid on city county state property and to the nation are except the income tax itself and war Var and excess ex excess excess ex- ex cess profits taxes Now for the saving to the taxpayer It If one buys a piano and he pays 15 additional as taxes then the purchaser purchaser purchaser pur- pur chaser has a right to deduct this amount from the income on which he pays One also has the right to de deduct the extra penny or two he pays pas on a soft sort drink and the 1 cent he pays on a 10 cent show ticket from the amount of income on which Ire he Is taxed ABSORBED BY SELLER There are certain taxes that must be paid by the purchasers and cannot be absorbed by the seller This is 10 30 per pcr cent on rugs and carpets costing more than 5 a a. square yard picture frames costing more than 10 a trunk costing more than 50 women's hats costing moro more than 15 mens men's hats costing more than 5 5 women's and misses' misses silk stocking costing more than 2 and numerous numerous other articles not supposed to be necessaries It is a good idea to carry a ledger in 1 your pocket and keep p account of the luxury taxes you pay I |