Show SIX mx BILLION DOLLAR I L TAX BILL SIGNED MEASURE PUTS INTO OPERATION MACHINERY FOR COLLECTING TAXES THIS YEAR cy Higher 1 Taxes ax taxes s P Pt Put t l Into to Effect at Once Once on on Liquor and So-called So Luxuries Railroad and Theatre Ticket Tax Begins April 1 Washington Signing of the revenue re bill by President Wilson en route to tot t Washington on on February 25 puts Into operation the machinery for collecting six billion of taxes this tills year Higher taxes tes went vent Into effect at att t once on liquor and soft drinks IncludIng including 0 ing near beer 4 and mineral waters and on tobacco and so-called so luxuries Anticipating the imposition of new taxes thousands of gallons of whiskey had bad been withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn from government bonded warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses within the last we week k with tax paid at the old rate of a gallon to escape the higher rate of a gallon now effective Articles in the tile luxury class on which new taxes went vent Into effect Include In In- elude clude automobiles automobiles and motor les Jes pianos sporting goods chewing gum guth l' l cameras candy firearms slot machines toilet sO and soaps and p-and art goods The The tax Is paid paid by the tile manufacturer Other features of the tax bill which went Into legal effect but Dut Which are retroactive and which consequently I are not practically affected by the tile time of the signing of the bill include the theS S s following Taxes on Incomes express profits and war profits estates and InheritanceS Inheritances inheritances Inherit Inherit- ances and excise taxes on special busInesses businesses bus bus- Sc messes such as brokers bowling alleys alleys al al- al- al leys Jeys Insurance companies theatre and amusement place place proprietors and liquor dealers Drastic measures to prevent the narcotic drug traffic become become become be be- come effective at once E- E S On April 1 1 new taxes on railroad and steamship tickets pipe lines Insurance insurance In in- In-I In theatre admissions and club S dues and a variety of stamp taxes bej become become be be- j come effective Levies against the excess excess excess ex ex- ex- ex cess of value alue of so called semi semi luxuries luxuries such as articles of dress will be made S. S after May 1 The soda fountain tax T becomes effective May 1 1 Taxes on products of child labor will be imposed in sixty da days vs |