Show penniless millionaires attention was recently called to the tax notice for 1878 that was served on william II 11 vanderbilt which was returned am endorsement indorsement indor that of hi debts ono of tho tax I said today to day most persons at first thought would say lie must havo perjured himself in mak ing such a statement personally I do not know him but I dont doubt ho told the truth tiie laws are so defective the exemptions of ty by tho state and tho united laws are so numerous and the nunns of evading taxation are so many and so simple that I am that any one pays a lay aur entire ertem of personal taxation is little better than a farce and courts leave interfered with and tinkered it clial all largo properties escape taxation ta and the burdens till upon widows and choso whoso is in the surrogates hands and apon property owners who are unable to place their possessions they will escape taxation the gentleman gives some ft of tho expedients used to escape taxation resident of one of the citha great corporations enjoys the salary and gincomo of ho lives in a costly houe hou e on murray hill and his possessions of bonds mortgagee and securities are largo lie was on personal property in tins city under oath lie said that ho was a firmer by occupation eliat his residence was in another county and that ho was not a citizen of new york persons visiting europe are usually followed by tax notices it is not an unheard of thing for them to go befaro an american consul and make affidavit that they are not american citizens in n few months they are back again in joew york engaged in their usual vocation there are thousands of residents in brooklyn alio own valuable personal properly in new york that the assessors are to get hold of the brooklyn assessors also anisa it and for scores it has paid no tax the removal of securities to places of deposit in new jersey and connect cut and the temporary conversion of taxable or city bonds into government bonds that cannot be taxed we como of llie many devices to en cap taxation |