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Show Sales Tax Tokens Must Be Used After July 1 Sales tax tokens have been issued by the Utah State Tax Commission Commis-sion and will be used by all citizens citi-zens beginning July 1. Regulations governing their uses in the State of Utah have been issued by the State Tax Commission. Under the laws passed by the 1937 legislation, the vendor is made responsible re-sponsible for the collection of the sales tax from the buyer. In all cases, the tax must be added to the sale price and collected as a separate separ-ate item. According to Chairman Irvin Arnovitz of the tax commission, commis-sion, it will be a violation of the act "for the vendor to absorb the tax or to consider that the tax is included in-cluded and collected as a part of the sales." The sales tax token, made of aluminum, alum-inum, are of such shape and weight that they cannot be mistaken or used for coins. The one mill token is smaller than a one cent piece, and the five mill token larger than a nickel and smaller than a quarter. The one mill token represents the exact 2 per cent sales tax on five cents, and the five mill token the exact 2 per cent sales tax on twenty-five twenty-five cents. On sales in excess of fifty cents, where the sales tax becomes be-comes one cent, state the regulations, regula-tions, the tokens are not to be used. The tokens are to be used only to collect that part of the tax represented repre-sented by a fractional part of one cent. For example, on the sale of $2.65, the two per cent tax would be 5 and 3-10 cents, or five cents and three one mill tokens. Where the tax falls between the even multiple of five cents, such as the tax on a purchase of seven or eight cents, the State Tax Commission Com-mission hopes the vendors will collect col-lect "as near as is possible and practical" prac-tical" the correct amount of tax due by computing the tax to the nearest near-est even one mill. On a sale of seven cents, one mill should be collected col-lected and on eight cents, two mill tokens. Tokens are supplied to vendors at the State capitol or at branch offices of-fices of the State Tax Commission upon payment in cash. The Utah State Bankers association have recommended rec-ommended that member banks handle han-dle tokens as an accomodation to customers and the Tax Commission. All state banks have received a shipment of tokens and have them now available to all merchants.. mer-chants.. The merchant is compelled by law to collect the tax and if they fail to do so they are liable to a heavy fine, and the cooperation coopera-tion of citizens will be appreciated, n |