Business Tax

We have just been informed that as a business dealing with the city of Los Angeles, we must obtain a special business tax license, file periodic reports and pay special business taxes to the city.

As a small, family book publisher of New York state history books, we have had only four sales to the Los Angeles Public Library in the last 10 years. The average invoice has been for less than $20 and the city has taken an average of five months to pay those invoices.

Now the city wants to add the burden of extra taxation onto small businesses that deal with them. We will not cooperate and we will no longer sell our books to the L.A. Public Library.

It is the citizens of Los Angeles that are the losers as their city is forcing such actions by small businessmen who will not put up with the trouble of dealing with such government procedures.

WALTER STEESY

Heart of the Lakes Publishing

Interlaken, N.Y.