Hovember Wr. Gordon 1940. Baxter, c/o Scholefield, First Seourity Ogden 9 Utah. Dear 135, Wells & Baxter, Bank Bldg., I hope you will parts of it Gordons the delay entirely new. pardon of letter your answering in 7th November but you can well realize that it took some time to digest the contents of both I have a background on some phases of this case, yours and Mr. Moyle's letters. but other You quite are ere correct the that eseumption in your tabulation for of sales both the suit period and the post-suit period was made on the actual sales price, The number of retail sales inciuded whether thet price was wholesale or retail. is very limited, and from the tone of Mr. Moyle's letter I would say that these sales are greatly exaggerated own. As suggested in your would be typical of the in the minds I ran letter early part of the Government on a test check suit period. of the as his es well men four months thet 1 thought These four months are as follows: fotel Reteil December, 1952, $10 & danuery, 1956, 66 3 106 O19 3 2 Mey, 1954, June, 1954, You will but I believe heavy month than that 1 have percentege of note the picked retail in any of these on months sales four months. to the that were totel it would, comperatively will be of course, small, a smaller in take a good deal of time to go through the total sales from June, 1952, to date, but it sould The total difference in tax on the four months listed above would be be done. about $12.00 to $14.00. . This may run into quite a little money if we undertook to examine all of the invoices for this purpose, and inasmuch as the Government men are conceding that an adjustment of the original assessment is in order because of these errors it might be to our advantage to make such a tabulation, not only for the the Government money we would men were in save but also for the psychological effect of proving errore fransportation and delivery charges which can be deducted to arrive at a correct base for assesaing excise tax were not deducted in either the Governaent computetion ending Sepember 30, 1935, or in my work sheets from that date to Im order to clerify this situation please let me call your attention June, 1940. to the fact thet we prepaid transportation on all guns sold during the suit period