Federal Stamp Taxes on Drafts, Checks and Promissory Notes, 1919Guaranty Trust Company of New York
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Federal Stamp Taxes on Drafts, Checks and Promissory Notes, 1919
Guaranty Trust Company of New York
Checks; Drafts; Promissory notes; Stamp duties -- United States
The following instruments payable otherwise than at sight or on demand
are included among taxable drafts and checks:
1. Trade and bankers’ acceptances.
2. Post-dated checks expressly payable after their date.
3. Time drafts drawn against the proceeds of drafts exempt
under (4) below.
4. Drafts stating no time for payment which are accepted for
payment at a certain future date.
5. Time drafts drawn on a domestic bank for the purpose of
securing money to purchase goods to be exported.
6. Time drafts, not covering exports, drawn and delivered or
accepted in the United States and payable in foreign countries.
7. Time drafts covering articles shipped from the United
States, Hawaii and Alaska to the Canal Zone, if such drafts are
delivered within the United States, Hawaii or Alaska.
8. Time drafts drawn against shipments from the Virgin Islands,
the Philippines and Porto Rico into the United States, if
delivery or acceptance of such drafts first takes place within
the United States, Alaska or Hawaii.
The following checks and drafts are exempt from tax:
1. Demand checks.
2. Post-dated checks not expressly payable after their date.
3. Time drafts covering shipments to the Virgin Islands, the
Philippines and Porto Rico.
4. Time drafts directly covering exports to a foreign country,
and constituting an inherent, necessary and bona fide part of
the actual process of exportation.
5. Time drafts drawn on domestic banks against export shipments
delivered to the first carrier for transportation, covering the
period of transit from the interior point to the seaboard.
6. Drafts drawn abroad on a foreign drawee with a foreign
payee, passing through a bank in the United States in the
course of collection unless delivered by an agent of the drawer
to an agent of the payee within the United States.
_Promissory Notes_
The following promissory notes and renewals of the same are included
among instruments taxable:
1. Notes given for security only.
2. Notes payable on demand or after date.
3. Promissory notes accompanying mortgages of joint-stock land
banks.
4. Promissory notes secured by bonds of the War Finance
Corporation.
5. Promissory notes executed and mailed in the United States to
a payee in Canada.
6. Extensions or renewals of promissory notes brought about by
extension of mortgages by which such notes are secured.
7. Instruments in the form of promissory notes, representing
the interest upon promissory notes, not included under (6)
below, and either separate from or prepared in a form and for
the purpose of being separated from the principal note.
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