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<p>[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 144308, member: 2100"]Willieboyd, I checked the California section more closely, and you are correct as far as the state issued items, as none are known to exist, save for a single pane of five "California" sales tax coupons. But those coupons were ordered from the Globe Ticket Company of Philadelphia at the request of Clark Morrow of Santa Monica, Ca, back in the early 30s. Since he was hoping to profit by becoming a supplier of such coupons to the state, these coupons are considered as fantasies. </p><p><br /></p><p>California had considerable turmoil in enacting state taxation, and merchants from the North and South of the state could not seem to agree on how it should be done, and many complaints were directed at the legislators after taxation laws were passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>While true that no official California sales tax tokens or coupons exist, there are a variety of items that were local/privately issued and essentially functioned in the same capacity as a state issued item would have. Many merchants of inexpensive items were frustrated that no tax was to be collected on sales of less than 15 cents, but yet they were required to submit to the state an amount of tax that was based on their total sales, hence they were required to return taxes that they could not collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does sound like Ca. came very close to issueing tokens from the following excerpt:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Difficulties continued. In September 1933, negotiations between state tax authorities and merchant representatives ended with an agreement that the state would issue its own metal tokens, to be called "merchant money". These tokens were envisioned to be made of an "inexpensive metal" and to bear the face value of 1/8c, the tax on a 5 cent purchase. In deference to the Constitution's reservation of the right of coinage to the Federal Government, these tokens were not to bear either the name of the State of California or its great seal; nor were they to be guaranteed value in trade. Tokens were expected to be ready by mid-October.</p><p><br /></p><p>Discussions were immediately begun with officials at the San Francisco Mint for the production of "merchant money". These tokens were to bear the inscription "Good for sales tax on a 5 cent purchase". Later in September an octagonal shape (to distinguish the tokens from "real" money) and aluminum composition were agreed upon, in addition to a reverse legend reading "Not redeemable in cash or trade". No patterns of such tokens are known to have been produced (although some fantasies were produced in 1973).</p><p><br /></p><p>A collector of sales tax tokens could collect the local/private sales tax tokens and coupons for California, of which there are 9 pages of listings. Thanks for asking, so clarification could be made. I tried to clarify such things in my first listing, but I admit my error in not catching this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 144308, member: 2100"]Willieboyd, I checked the California section more closely, and you are correct as far as the state issued items, as none are known to exist, save for a single pane of five "California" sales tax coupons. But those coupons were ordered from the Globe Ticket Company of Philadelphia at the request of Clark Morrow of Santa Monica, Ca, back in the early 30s. Since he was hoping to profit by becoming a supplier of such coupons to the state, these coupons are considered as fantasies. California had considerable turmoil in enacting state taxation, and merchants from the North and South of the state could not seem to agree on how it should be done, and many complaints were directed at the legislators after taxation laws were passed. While true that no official California sales tax tokens or coupons exist, there are a variety of items that were local/privately issued and essentially functioned in the same capacity as a state issued item would have. Many merchants of inexpensive items were frustrated that no tax was to be collected on sales of less than 15 cents, but yet they were required to submit to the state an amount of tax that was based on their total sales, hence they were required to return taxes that they could not collect. It does sound like Ca. came very close to issueing tokens from the following excerpt: "Difficulties continued. In September 1933, negotiations between state tax authorities and merchant representatives ended with an agreement that the state would issue its own metal tokens, to be called "merchant money". These tokens were envisioned to be made of an "inexpensive metal" and to bear the face value of 1/8c, the tax on a 5 cent purchase. In deference to the Constitution's reservation of the right of coinage to the Federal Government, these tokens were not to bear either the name of the State of California or its great seal; nor were they to be guaranteed value in trade. Tokens were expected to be ready by mid-October. Discussions were immediately begun with officials at the San Francisco Mint for the production of "merchant money". These tokens were to bear the inscription "Good for sales tax on a 5 cent purchase". Later in September an octagonal shape (to distinguish the tokens from "real" money) and aluminum composition were agreed upon, in addition to a reverse legend reading "Not redeemable in cash or trade". No patterns of such tokens are known to have been produced (although some fantasies were produced in 1973). A collector of sales tax tokens could collect the local/private sales tax tokens and coupons for California, of which there are 9 pages of listings. Thanks for asking, so clarification could be made. I tried to clarify such things in my first listing, but I admit my error in not catching this one.[/QUOTE]
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