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Show WAR TAX BEGINS New Law Taxing Telephone Users Donver, Nov. 30. Tho far reaching reach-ing effects Of tho European war will ho felt In, a small why by telephono lasers according to tho announcement announce-ment made here today by the United States .Ihternul Revenue Department The new federal revenue tax on telephone tele-phone and telegraph messages goes Into effect December 1st all over the country, and a government tax of one cent1 Wilt be collected for every message amounting to fifteen cents or over.- ' Officials 'Of The Mountain 'States Telephone and -Telegraph Company, jipcfatlng-'inVthS" s'evi mountain atate,lJaiV"5bderi'bUsy' for. the past month ''notifying 'exchanges In all pnrtsTof IhesysldnTof the'm'anner In which, this tax is to be collected and turnd;-'ovor-ito the government. No- tlrpshave been Bent to cach'of' 'tho 2r0,000 subscribers in tho system and placards containing tho provisions of the new law are to bo posted In uv-ryjifty uv-ryjifty station. According to tho hiwv i'all long distance s message amounting to fifteen' cents or over ore '-Taxed ono cent, whether from private telephones or from public or 'Pay stations. Toll calls from prlvato telephonefl' will 'bo counted by tho company nnd taxed In a lump on the monthly bill. Pay station customers wll bo required to drop a penny In jtho coin box of tho telephone when .their call Is made. There will bo no taxon local messages vhere no toll charge Is made. Tho effects of tho new lfwc'wlll bo interesting in this western country, where the number of pennies in c'lr-culatlon c'lr-culatlon is proportionately small. According Ac-cording to officials of' the United States Mint In Denver, all ponnles are coined In Philadelphia and' shipped ship-ped through tho local mint and Bub treasury for distribution. No shor-ago shor-ago of pennies is anticipated, as tho banks throughout tho country have been supplied In tho last fow woeks. In soma cases, according to officials offici-als of the telephono company tho cost of collecting tho tax from public pay stations will oxceed tho tax Itself, but tho now law Is stringent nnd requires re-quires thjj collection to bo made ''on ovory call. |