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Show PLfiN DETEC DF IIIC01VIEJAXD0DGERS Federal Officials Believe Unpaid Un-paid Amounts Will Make Large Total. WASHINGTON". Nov. 1 1 .Oi": hdals of the treasury department ure peeking to lay the groundwork for a vigorous ami natioii-vv ! le campaign for tlio ileteetion of in on.e tax dixlKers a nd t ho collection collec-tion of unpaid taxes, which some authorities authori-ties believe n.ay mount Into millions. The effort Is directed partl.-uhi rly a.dut persons who are stockholders and drawei uf dividends from the curpoiu-tli'i-s ,-r Ihe cOMiilry. Tln-re aie more lhan J,H,.'Hi ..rations dotm: ln:s'.:o--s in t!e I'liUeil h'taN--. aecoiiilni; to r'ttinis fmm the eorpont Hon excise law, and if imv plan is alop:,..j t Institute a thnrouch search 'f tli'dr lists of ht;;i reaolders and th.e record i of their dividends It will be tr.ost exhaustivo iuul uiuy Like year.-, j h'o,- the pr- scTil no such plan 1" lih lv to ; be adopte.1, however, an 1 It If ur.der- j stood to be the hope of officials th.at the i cor; orations will furnish tills Information Informa-tion upon request. , Theie 'e pome question ns to the power of the department to make corj. orations , furnish this lnformntlon. but it hn bem ' an unofficial view that in ca"e of refut-.tl i tlie law iflves sufficient autliorlty for th.e i sending of internal revenue agents to I make examinn Hons. j Since the n:l retr.rrs- from the in- 1 com- ta were tota'e, thre h.is bi-n nrt , concealment of thf f:ict that treasury of- j ftcials were disappointed. The t;ix collected col-lected fell many mil'ioTiS below w'rat waa exnected. T'c.e estin ate of tax ible lndl- i vluua's on winch rontrrps frnTi.ei the law I uerv far at vsrl.in frnui I h e flciir-" re- j turned by tntrnal revenue rnlie.tors. Th.e 1 difference trtweT the rtnr s snd estimates esti-mates was ov er the K"'1 n n i"k. This was not x.ikeu t n-ean Hat there v.ere nc tuailv marv tnxadf s in the co-mfy wl o had e ade I tio- law. but. allow In i; for a wide nmrc:n of n- i - al--u latlon. ntfi-c.als ntfi-c.als are inclined to T.-llt the Wlif f thnt there nnist be many ca:-cs of unpaid taep. Under the hi w. the normal tar of I pr cent is wtii'.rl bv the eorr-' m tionr themselves on su h prtym-en: as dlvidetids. Prohnblv th.ere ha b-n virtually ro violation vio-lation of the law in this quarter, for te Rscrt-cat i!'.videnil of corporation are facts already accessible lo the internal revenue bureau. The failures tr pay are nssumed. there-fire, there-fire, to be anions th.e cla - s of taxa bles whose Incomes a r- p uhj : to the sl.i i taN on more than $'.' .-' anno i'm-. Aci;rectte fUrure of a corporation's d'v-Idrr.d d'v-Idrr.d pavmcnls wot. Id not a:d In di'-ov-erlng' t::e lr.con;t of ir.i ivM u.tli? and aboiu the only method left to i;t a ch-k up-iv thern i.s through lis- .'f sMcki)'"ld.rs and actual dlvidrd pavnier.ts to th-m. Th" scope- of su"h a ta-K has been the sub ;ct of coiinioit a moncr t hose who have heird this plan broached. It hi'S been pointed out that conn nations such as the biir raihxad systems of the country, coun-try, the ."nited States Steel corporation find fcore-i of others have outstanding thousands of h,nrf s of stock tpread amor.g thousands of shareholders. The phvsicai labor of transcribing lists from these coi-pur-i lions, in c.u-e tl;ey are not voluntarily given, would bo enormous and the expense might be great. |