Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 21, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday. February Why should you pay a tax that no other Canadian pays after june 1st., 1967, when you buy a dress a suit a shirt or other clothing and linens you will pay an Athit tonal 5% provincial sales tax. Why then should you have to pay another 5% surcharge each and every time this same personal property is laundered or dry cleaned is a new concept in tory and repetitive. It is also insidious in that it time a maintenance tax on labour that services it for the first time a sales tax on labour the laundry and dry cleaning service Industry seeks no special privilege. It will carry its fair share of the new sales tax Burden on equipment supplies Etc. But it objects strenuously to the unfair imposition of an additional tax surcharge to its customers. The implications of the proposed customer sur charge extend far beyond the laundry and dry cleaning service Industry. This customer sur on an essential Industry is Only the it sets the precedent for additional provincial sales taxes on labour and on personal property. Sales taxes that will extend progressively to All goods and services w have the democratic right to protest a proposed tax to your attention for your Protection so that Yon May Appeal assistance to rescind this pyramiding surcharge before it becomes a realty now before too late within the next two weeks the sales tax Bill will be before the legis nature debate the democratic Way is to express your opinion to your elected representative now before the tax becomes Law fill oat the Appeal Box below and Send it to your Mem Ber today this notice has been prepared and paid for by the launderers and a to elation of Manitoba whose members Are listed alphabetically below Manitoba launderers 6 cleaners Altona Drc Uwell Park Boissevain sri for Span Brandon Cut what City Carman Carman Dauphin Modem cleaners flin flon Carlton Minnedosa sran Morris Denwell Neepawa Portage la Prairie p c m Rivers Dawson Russell spot inc Selkirk cleaner Souris sour ii Steinbach Sternbach Virdin Virden Winkler Winnipeg metro a-1 dry Acme Linan Supply Avenue Dyer for Boiton hat work. Capitol Carlton s cleaning Canadian Linen Supply City dyers it Crown Eaton i Valet service Flash fort carry Graham i Way cleaners Imperial metro Midway Mitchell in s Norwood cleaner Park Peter pan cleaner Rainbow cleaner Kite Way sanitary scorn Sunshine uniform Supply Valley Village inn cleaner Weisbrook West View Whitehall to my member of tin Manitoba legislative Assembly i the. 5% but Latuer or laundry and dry services and ask support in eliminating it. Date name address phone town or City mail to Post office Box no. 519 Winnipeg i or drop off at any laundry and dry cleaning store or hand it to any laundry and dry cleaning Driver Salesman ;