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Show Beverage Tax on Distilled Spirits To Be Very High WASHINGTON, OcU 8. The present pres-ent rate" on Doverage spirits Is $3.20 per gallon which the committee today established as the rate for distilled spirits used for non-beverage purposes instead of the 54.40 tax proposed by the house on that class. Reduction of the beverage rate on distilled spirits is expected to stimulate stimu-late both consumption and withdrawal from bonded warehouses and thereby increase the $795,000,000 which the house proposed to raise from this source. An amendment provides that exports ex-ports of distilled spirits shall be free of tax when sent to any of the allies, but subject to taxation if shipped to a neutral country. The "floor tax" on distilled spirits was reduced from $2.20 to $1 per gal- Ion, to conform to the reduction In the manufacturing tax. The transportation feature of the bill also was completed by the committee which increased from 6 per cent to 8 per cent, the rate on oil pipe line transportation. The house rates of 8 per cent on passenger and Pullman transportation were approved as were tho increased rates on telegraph, telephone, radio and cable messages and on private wire systems except thoso used for transmission of news. 00 |