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Show HEW TAX BILL WILLGUT LEVY MELLON TAX BILL MEETS WITH APPROVAL OF HOUSE COMMITTEE Few Changes Are Contained In Text From Outline of Bill as Announced From Treasury Washington, Reversing Its previous prev-ious policy, the house ways and means committee Friday made public the new revenue bill in the form it was sent to the capitol by Secretary Mellon. Mel-lon. The text contains few changes from the outline of the bill which has been publicly announced at the treasury. It follows Mr. Mollon's proposals for a sweeping revision of administrative administra-tive provisions to prevent tax dodging including a provision for a board of twenty-eight tnx appraisers to act ns a court of appeals in disputed cases and makes detailed provision for the tar reductions advocated by the secretary. A fight for publicity for the measure meas-ure was conducted in a sub-committee meeting by Representative Garner of Texas, the ranking Democratic member. Chairman Green and other majority members insisted then that the text should be held in confidence as a courtesy to Mr. Mellon. Inasmuch Inas-much ns the principal provisions already al-ready have been published, however, Mr. Green decided Friday that there was no necessity for further withholding with-holding publication. The subcommttee recessed after Friday's session until after the first of the year, when the full committee again will take up consideration of the measure. The bill was made public in the form of a reprint of the voluminous revenue act of 1921, with scores of interlineations in-terlineations and other amendments indicated. Detailed outlines of these amendments were made public by Secretary Mellon on November 11 and on December 16, and were printed throughout the country. In many cases the language employed em-ployed to carry these changes into effect is so highly technical as to be unintelligible except on the basis of explanations by the experts attached to the committee and to the treasury for that purpose The normal income tax sections of the existing law are left undisturbed except that the present 4 per cent rate is reduced to S per cent and the present 8 per cent is reduced to 6 per cent. |