Show ING G oi OF INCOME AX GROWING IN POPULARITY dating ting ling Restrained Among m Rich Persons Pay Pay- sg 48 Per Cent Larger By BASIL M. M MANLY id d News Economist on Staff o oThe of The Telegram tar ry on Wf 01 acl l Km eon 1 WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec Dee 8 The S-The The re reo the tha commissioner of ot Internal t tL Jue ue Just lust made public shows that lii ib the revenue agents have pied eked out a a. large number of ot mu mH- Ire lre tax dodgers and thus greatly ax ome eased ased d the collections Income tax Is actually on the increase tog year 1915 1916 covered by the rt income tax returns were made with compared persons compared with 0 15 for 1915 1916 an increase of ot only per cent of ot the detailed figures c this small Increase came entirely through the roundups roundup roundup round up ups of large numbers of enormous enormous- persons and that the num- num ofA of returns from people with Her lIer Incomes either remained fly 1111 stationary or actually de- de sed Ithe class paying tax on Incomes and over there were ins ros as compared with 60 in 1914 increase crease of per cent For to class the in in- 83 88 per cent for the class 71 per cent and Kei to class 59 69 cent centis is showing indicates laudable acy acy ac- ac y 7 on the part of the internal reve- reve bureau in restraining tax ax among tho the v very ry rl rich h but it also cs clearly clearly the absolute impotence ie le present system of collecting In In- I undemocratic un un- I 13 1 I tax with Its basis of ot secrecy of returns evidence supporting this Ius Ion appears in the body of the detailing ng the results of ot a agnet amet amet met gnet investigation conducted ined in cd ed districts to determine the ex ex- of of evasion of the Income tax n experiment of this nature says report is being conducted in internal revenue district with the securing delinquent returns present time about 75 pe per the of work is completed T this point shows that 6 quent returns have been secured i which taxes axes amounting to 14 been assessed In the theIn thein in In which this district Is located 3 I are two other revenue districts a decrease in the tho amount In 1915 1916 as compared one to the extent of 2100 2100 and the other to that in round numbers but In in district where the special in in- n cation came into the hands of the torment and a thorough canvass was made on the facts ose there was an increase as aseen aseen aseen een the years 1915 and of he conclusion f Is inevitable conf con- con f eUhe the report that Uta t this Increase due to the knowledge that the officers were in posses posses- that made evasion risk is true that the only way inch the reven revenue e officers can se- se this Information on a nation scale Is by making the Income public so BO that the entire can know who the tax ax era ers are evidence furnished its lis report that Income tax 3 e Ion slon on the increase in certain dis dis- 11 eland and among large classes of ot the lallon in spite of ot the Increase in number of ot revenue agents is a for tor a a change in the entire m m. |