CORRESPONDENCE
THE SALES TAX
(To the Editor.)
Sh, —Can you put me right on the following .' I am, a photographer, and buy my mounts in the ordinary course of bu--* nest fiom a warehouse, to whbm I paj sales tax on eveiy purchase. I' take boine of these mounts to the printer to lwne sonic names piinted on. !My punter charges me <i salesi tax for printing,tho.-e names on Hie mounts, on which, as stated, I have ahcady paid, sales tax. Can the printer charge this? The printer insist, that lie is ii(iht. It he is; then it will be seen that sales tax is being paid' twice on tlie sume article.—l am, etc.,
BROMIDE
[The pi inter i* conforming with the law icquiiing him to ictiirn for; and pay monthly, sales tax on the actual invoice value of punting work done, and ho ha* the lijiht to rcco\cr this fiom his customer. Presuming the sales tax paid to the wholesale supplier to cover mounts only, while the printer siraply .charged for printing names thereon, 'each.transaction was a separate part of the cost of a complete mount, and though the sales tax would be paid in two instalments it would not be duplicated.]
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1933, Page 6
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203CORRESPONDENCE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1933, Page 6
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