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Show WAR TAX ASSESSED ON TELEPHONE TOLL CALLS Local Companies Required by Law te Collect a War Tax of te. on All Toll Calls Above 15c. Each. The Iron County Telephone Company, Com-pany, in connection with all others, is roojuirad by law to collect a war tax of five cents on every toll BMt S the charge for which is fifteen i cuts or over. This requirement is 'made in the War Tax Hill which became a law October .'!, 1017. The sections of the law whiih refer to this tax are: "Section 500. That from and after the list day of November, 1917, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid (e) a tax of 5 cents upon each telegraph, telephone, or radio, ra-dio, dispatch, measage, or conversation, conversa-tion, which originates within the United States, and for transmission of which a charge of 15 cents or more ll imposed. "Section 601. That the taxes im-posed im-posed by section five hundred shall be paid by the person, corporation, partnership, part-nership, or association paying for the services or facilities rendered. "Section 60S. That each persoe, corporation, partnership, or association associa-tion receiving any payments referred to in section five hundred shall collect the amount of the tax, if 'any, imposed by such section from the person, corporation, cor-poration, partnership, or association making such payments, and shall make monthly returns under oath, in duplicate, and pay the taxes so collected col-lected and the taxes imposed upon it under paragraph two of section five hundred and one to the collector of Internal revenue of the district in which the principal office or place of business is located." Adv. Patronize Our KsssissBasaasssBMHBSssssaasHi ssssaasss Advertisers UUIBBUBBBBUaBaSBaBUBsnBSBBBBnB They are all j boosters and deserve your business. " |