The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 27, 1921, Page 12

(Continued from page 5) ning with estates of $20,000 to $35,000 there is a tax of 1 per cent; $35,000 to $50,000, 2 per cent; $50, 000 to $150,- 000, 4 per cent; $150,Q00 to $250,000, 6 per cent. The taxes then graduate on an increasing scale until the point of $10,000,000 is reached, after which the tax is 90 per cent. ' The four bills are sponsored by the Committee of Manufacturers and Merchants on Federal Taxation, a na- tional association of business men of which Otto Cullman, 1346 Altgeld street, Chicago, is chairman; and by the Farmers’ Federal Tax league, of which Lieutenant Governor George F. Comings of Madison, Wis., is presi- dent. Accompanying the bills Mr. Keller presents-a detailed estimate showing that the bills, together with customs and other miscellaneous revenue, would raise funds sufficient to meet the government budget, and in addi- tion, provide a sinking fund which would pay off the government debt in 30 years. Mr. Keller says: “My revenue program will relieve producing business of $1,730,000,000 annually and the people of from three to five timies this amount in inflated living costs. I am in favor of the re- moval of all taxes on business and in- dustry, including the excess profits _tax and the corporation income tax, but only on condition that my revenue program is accepted in its entirety. If my new revenue bills are rejected 1 will withdraw my amendments repeal- ing the corporation taxes.” Canadian Farmers Fight the Sales Tax (Continued from page 10) last man and the last dollar prin- ciple adopted during the war was ex- pected to last a little longer than the mere duration of hostilities.” In the practical working out of the matter through the sales tax it is found that the last dollar principle applies only to the great body of people who must . work hard for a living. It is being found out in Canada that the sales tax is open to grave objec- tion on the ground that it increases the cost of living in that it retards the downward movement of the prices of manufactured articles, which have not fallen as much as have those of other products. It is true that in Canada the products that the farmer sells himself are not taxed, but the articles he has to buy are, and in some cases "~ this is becoming a very serious mat- ter. The consumer may well beware of the carefully worked out examples showing that the sales tax will never than 3% per cent. This may be true insofar as the wholesale trade is true of the retail trade. What ordi- nary storekeeper figures out to the tenth part of a cent, a2 1 or a 2 per cent tax on an article, or what his profit on it should be? It invariably follows that the consumer not only pays the tax but a little more. ; As a general observation, let the consumer beware of the. sales tax. "It will-not do him any good, nor is it - intended by those who advocate it that it should. If the consumer did not pay, there would be little heard of it in quarters where it is most strongly . advocated. = This is well known m Canada. " The one thing to be most feared about the sales tax is that it will not - stop at 1 per cent. Canada has dem- 3 g \ increase the cost of an article by more _ concerned, but it is far from being . The Keller Tax Bills and the Farmer - onstrated this beyond a shadow of doubt. Last year it was a tax of 1 per cent on the sales of manufacturers and producers to the wholesalers and Jjobbers, or 2 per-cent if the sale was made direct to the retailer. This year the tax in the first case has been in- creased to 1% per cent, and to 3 per cent in the other. But thls is not all. On top of this is another tax of 1 per cent on imports, so that in_the casé of sales of domestic goods “the con- sumer pays at least 3 per cent, which is increased by 1% per cent every time the article changes hands, while the consumer pays at least 4 per cent on imported goods. In the matter of automobile tires, the materials for which are imported, it is quite proba- ble that the purchaser will ,pay at least 8 per cent more. The imposition of a 1 per cent tax on imports will also increase the price of most home-produced articles to this extent. That is to say, those who produce or sell them will take advan- tage of the-increase in the tariff to raise their own prices. This means another charge on the consumer. Last year in Canada there was quite a long list of articles on which.the sales tax was not collected. There is still an exemption list, but it is not ADVERTISEMENTS nearly as long as it was. 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