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Show 2,300,000 Public Aids Face Worry Of Income Tax for First Time WASHINGTON, Jsn. 15 ("-The treasury estimated today that approximately ap-proximately 2,300,000 state and local lo-cal governmental officials and employe em-ploye would have to worry about federal Income tax returns this year for the first time. After supreme court decisions sweeping swsy constitutional bar-rien, bar-rien, congress at Its last session ordered these people Into the Income In-come tax ranks, where they will join about 6,000,000 privately and federally employed persons who had to file returns last year. By March 15, every person In the United States who had more than (1000 or $2500 net Income, depending depend-ing on whether he Is single or married, will have to file a return on hi 1939 Income, with th single . 1 exception of the group of federal Judges who were appointed prior to June 6, 1932. Despite previous reverses, government lawyers are still trying to break down the exemption ex-emption of the latter, who have been protected, up to now, by a constitutional ban on diminishing the compensation of a Judge after (Continued on Ptre Twel (Colunui Six) V: Public Aids Hit By Income Tax (ConUoued from Pftgs On) his appointment. In -more than 20 states, the change will work both ways, for congress also authorized states having hav-ing their own income taxes to assess federal employes, hitherto exempt from such levies. The percentage of the 2,300.000 who will have to pay any federal tax, however, Is likely to be small. Finding that their average annual salary was barely over 11000, the treasury has figured the tax on the lot of them at only 516,000,000. In states like New York, where the size of public salaries la Indicated Indi-cated by the 525,000 stipend of the governor, the federal take may be heavy. But In states like South Dakota, where the governor gets only $3000 a year, federal collectors collec-tors don't flgur on working very hard. The number of Utah officials who will have to pay federal Income In-come tax for the first time this year could not be determined Monday, Mon-day, pending receipt of replies from state, city, county and school departments to a request for Information In-formation sent out by the federal bureau of Internal revenue. On a basis of scattered replies received, attache of th federal bureau said, about one-third aa many officials will pay th federal tax as pay the state income tax. The state tax commission wss unable to give the number paying the stste tax. |