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Show WAR TAX CHANGES. Commissioner Scott Wants the Law Made IMore Explicit. Washington, Dec. 10. Commissioner Scott advises that the clauses provid-for provid-for the stamping of telegraph dispatches dispatch-es and receipts or bills of lading for freight and express packages to be so amended as to make it definite and cer. tain who shall affix and pay for the stamp. The removal of the stamp tax on mortgages is recommended, inasmuch as there is a stamp tax on promissory notes, and the taxing of mortgages given to secure such notes results in double taxation, falling on the debtor class. The commissioner also urges that if brokers pay the special tax required under the law, they should be relieved of the stamp tax under the head of "contracts," which is a tax on all notes or memorandums of sale by brokers. |