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this scan of the May 1932 issue of
Music Trade
Review magazine.
https://www.nytimes.com/1924/12/22/archives/hoover-advocates-tax-on-radio-sales-he-deems-improvement-of.html
Crosley 'Fortyfive' Tabletop Radio Advertisement June 1932 Radio-Craft
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, May. 1932 17 RADIO TRADE FILES PROTEST AGAINST
DISCRIMINATORY FEDERAL SALES TAX U NFAIR discrimination against radio by the
proposed 5% special sales tax of the House Revenue Bill was stressed by leading
Tadio manufacturers at a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on April
18. The hearing was accorded the Radio Manufacturers' Association, representing
over 95% of radio manufacturers. Disaster as well as discrimination would result
from the House bill, the Senate Committee was told at the R. M. A. hearing.
Reduction at least to 3%, on the same basis as the proposed automobile tax, was
urged and the Senators were told that a general sales tax, or a general
manufacturers' tax, exempting food, clothing, medicine, etc., would be
distinctly preferable and more fair than the proposed discriminatory tax of the
House bill. It was urged that the latter is an undeserved penalty on a few
industries. The radio industry hearing before the Senate Committee was in
general charge of Mr. Frank D. Scott, Washington legislative counsel of the R.
M. A. It followed a conference in Washington last week of a large number of
leading receiving set and tube manufacturers of the R. M. A. The radio industry
hearing was represented by a committee including Messrs. Frank D. Scott, James
M. Skinner, president of the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, and Paul B.
Klugh, of the Zenith Radio Corporation. Following the Senate Committee hearings,
the R. M. A. Legislative Committee, of which Mr. H. B. Richmond, of Cambridge,
Mass., is chairman, arranged for organized industry support against the
discriminatory 5% tax by radio trade leaders of the industry. Prominent jobbers
and dealers of the R. M. A. Legislative Committee in States having Senators on
the Finance Committee were sent bulletins by Chairman Richmond, urging them to
protest to their respective Senators against the special discriminatory tax
proposed on radio and to recommend reduction at least to the 3% rate proposed
for automobiles.
Posted October 10, 2022
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