Radio Licenses for U.S.A.

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 9, 12 September 1930, Page 4

Radio Licenses for U.S.A.

' MOVEMENT has begun in the United States, where there is no license fee for radio listeners, to enact legislation which will bring revenue to the States from radio operation, the proceeds to go toward paying the cost of the Government’s radio research and standardisation activities, as in Canada, where the feé amounts to one dollar. South Carolina, for instance, revently set up a law that imposes an annual license tax of fifty cents on each radio receiver costing fifty dollars or less; one dollar on each set costing between fifty and two hundred do]lars, and up to 2 dollars 50 cents each for sets in the higher price ranges. To make the law operative the Act requires: That each and every person, firm and corporation engaged in the business of selling, bartering or exchanging radio receiving sets, shall keep a separate record of such sales especially showing the person to whom such sale is made; that such records required to be kept shall be subject to inspection by the State tax commission. a