OCR Text |
Show Seller To Pay "" Electric Tax Beginning the first of September Sept-ember the burden of the electric power sales tax will be placed on the seller of the power rather than on the consumer, as it is at the present time. The tax of three per cent, has been regarded as a very great evil by electric light and power consumers. Heretofore all the power companies have had to do was to keep books, sending the three per cent of collected bills to the proper government agency. After the first of September the power companies will . have to pay the tax. |