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Show LBy W. O. Telegraph.) ISTKRML REVENUE DECISIONS. Washington, 23. The Commissioner of Internal ltevenuo decided, February, Febru-ary, 1S71, aa to the liability of corporations to lax interest on coupons, that no tux be withheld from interest on coupons due and payable within five months from August 1st, ltt7o, and that interest due and payable on the! subsequent January 1st ib taxable at' the rate of two and half per cent., if' accrued prior to August 1st or Fubsc-1 quent to December 31i, lfc70. ' 'or- I tain companies acting under this! decision have only collected iho pro-1 portion of tax accruing in 1671, on the j 11th of May, 1S71. The Attorney- General decided that the whoio lux bo paid, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue revoked his former decision, in accordance with that of the Attorney-General, and has requested companies com-panies who had already acted under ! other decisions to pay the full tax instead of a pro rata proportion, and on their refusal to do this, the question was submitted to the Treasury Department. Depart-ment. E. C. Bonfield, Solicitor of the Treasury, in his opinion, says the opinions of the Commissioner of Internal Inter-nal Revenue, when promulgated to the public, are laws on which applicants in j this case have a right to act. Under ail circumstances, lam of opinion that, 1 legally and equitably, Uie department! i will be under tho necessity of yielding to the present request and desisting from enforcing the collection of the tax in question from companies who ! prefer an application. |