Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-12 | Page 18 | Tax Evanders Rush to Pay

TAX EVADERS RUSH TO PAY Government Drive Brings In In More Mor-e Than 50 Million Dollars Copyright hf 1934 by United Press W WASHINGTON Jan 12 Upward 12 Upward of of back taxes have been paid into the treasury by frightened evaders internal revenue officials estimated es es- today as as the government nt intensified intensified in in- d' d da a drive to obtain the last penny jenny legitimately due In long pending pend pend- Ing ng income tax cases Some estimates of the sum frightened frightened fright triCht ened into the toe treasury were as high as These payments were ascribed largely to a campaign campal begun last ast summer by Guy T T. r of internal revenue to dispose pf of p pending cases Belief that prosecutions would eventuate from the income tax drive was expressed in high official There was suspicion that inexcusable Inex inex- Inexcusable laxity in handling tax cases would be revealed In some instances Treasury policy was understood in general to be to warn first offenders and permit them to make a n settlement with the government But second offenders the tax law arc are more likely to be prosecuted than to tobe tobe be let off the United Press was In in- formed Whether tax assessments are compromised below the sums actually due the government will depend principally prin prin- principally upon the ability of the taxpayer tax payer to raise the money due In any event all compromises must pass across the desk of ot Secretary of Treasury Treasury Treas Treas- ury Appointment yesterday of John Clark Clarki Cheyenne Wyo attorney to toa toa toa a position in the thc treasury was in preparation for tor increased Income tax work expected to develop as the drive for back payments continues He will wil handle extra difficult tax matters