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What are Revenues?. PURPOSE 1. Pay a tax or not 2. Pay a fee for service 3. Show a credit 4. Occupational Taxes 5. Insure that proper tax will be paid. Fee For Service. New York Customs House
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What are Revenues? PURPOSE 1. Pay a tax or not 2. Pay a fee for service 3. Show a credit 4. Occupational Taxes 5. Insure that proper tax will be paid
Fee For Service • New York Customs House • Paying the 30¢ fee for an Export entry from a manufacturing warehouse to be shipped to Vera Cruz
Fee for Service – Consular Service • Multiples of consular fee stamps are scarce and desirable • Stamps were issued in denominations of fees for all common consular services
Fee for Service – Consular Service • Certification of Purchased Merchandise • Fee was $2.50, paid by bisected $5.00 stamp
Fee for Service • Veterinarians were often hired as meat inspectors • Carcass tag • Inspection stamp for carton of meat shipped in interstate commerce
Shows a CreditWith the Government • Savings account with the U.S. Post Office • Card is imprinted with one stamp • Remaining stamps are adhesives added to the card
Annual Fee on a Yacht • Yachts have been a favorite object to tax, although the periods when effective have usually been brief • 187 foot length x $4.00 per foot = $748.00
Annual Tax onManufacturer of Oleomargarine • Part of the law to prevent fraud • Amount of annual tax never changed from 1886 until 1950, when all taxes on oleomargarine were terminated
Annual Tax on Wagering • Annual registration and payment of fee • Probably initiated to determine who was gambling.
Annual Tax on Retail Dealerin Wines and Malt Liquors • Did not permit sale of distilled spirits • Most states in 1940 permitted sale of all alcoholic beverages or only malt liquor (beer)
Insuring the Tax Will Be Paid:Lock Seal • Required to be used in Slaight locks to lock bonded storerooms and warehouses • Used by the Bureau of Prohibition
Insuring the Tax Will Be Paid:Lock Seal • In use from 1951-1973 • For a new lock that superceded the Slaight lock which had been in use since 1873
Insuring the Tax Will Be Paid:Hydrometer Label • Hydrometer had been certified for use • First used in 1866
Insuring the Tax Will Be Paid:Hydrometer Label • Portrait of Alfred Pleasonton, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue