Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-07 | Page 14 | Morgenthau Asks Nation Tax Survey

ASKS NATION TAX SURVEY V WASHINGTON June 7 De WI-De- P De Describing scribing tax evasion as increasing because machinery machiner for Cor assessing and collecting collecting- the levies is out of equilibrium Secretary today proposed a thoroughgoing stud study of the problem in an effort to remedy the defects Addressing the tax ta revision council council coun coun- cil composed of federal state and municipal officials meeting here to consider what to do about overlapping overlapping overlapping overlap overlap- ping and conflicting taxation the I secretary of the treasury said I The first step in my opinion is isto isto I Ito to make male a careful survey and analysis sis of the total tax structure of the country to determine just how the burden of oC governmental expenses is isnow isnow isnow now distributed N Net t I 1 would note what practicable practicable practicable changes in the combined tax lax structure of oC the country would produce produce pro pro- duce cluce a sound and more equitable distribution of the total burden In the third place I would concentrate concentrate con con- upon a few important and workable means of eliminating con con- con 1 I and overlapping in a manner consistent with our analysis of what constitutes a fundamentally desirable desirable desirable desir desir- able tax structure Finall Finally having arrived at a few I Important possibilities which we we know enow to be fundamentally sound i we can then attempt to put them limo into effect I