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Show TI1DEN-3 INCOME TAX. . j jTh New York 7VV. publishes a full transcript from the records of Governor Tilden'a income tax pay-men pay-men ta from 1S62 to 1S72 inclusive; but the figures aa they are telegraphed are too confused and contradictory to giva a clear idea of the facts. It appears ap-pears that in ISC 3 two assessments , were paid by Governor Tilden, the first being the annual tax of five per cent, "on $7,620.20, aud the other beisg the special war tax of five per cent, on the total amount of $14,022. Between 1S64 and 1S70 Tilden made no return ot his income, and paid the tax aa estimated by the assessor, with the penalty for failing to make a return re-turn added. As the matter U being investigated, and a lawsuit promised, the true state of the case may be reached before the election. The substance of the charge made against the democratic candidate for the presidency is that in making his income in-come returns for 5e62 he fraudulently withheld from that statement Bome $20,000 of income which he subsequently subse-quently awore that he received aa services in a railroad case during that year. To this it is replied that the earnings of the year, not the collec- tions made in 1862, were applicable! to the tax of that year, and that a large portion of the $20,000 referred to was due to the earnings of previous years. Though the explanation may be legitimate, the charge against Mr. Tilden ii pushed to the uttermost possibility of speech and print, and may have a certain effect upon the canvass unless fully contradicted. |