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Show FIFTEEN" MILLIONAIRES. All That England Boasts, While Ireland Ire-land Has One. (London Cor. New York Times.) There are only fifteen millionaires in Great Britain and one in Ireland at least this would appear to be. so from the official Income tax returns just issued. is-sued. According to the returns, these sixteen six-teen persons make the sum total of the individuals in : this country who enjoy incomes of over 50,000, and this is about the "millionaire" level. It is true that there are 184 people with incomes of . between 10.000 and 50,000, and, of course, a. considerable number of these are just on the line across which they would be classed as millionaires. Incomes of between 5,000 and 10,000 are enjoyed by 424 people. To be an assessor of income tax one needs a heart of flint. To him the .world is a Dantesque Inferno, filled with dolorous complainings. . Tt is alwavs. "The worst vear T ro. member, sir," or "Hard times, very hard times;" every year sees the nation na-tion "on its last financial legs." Unfortunately, the great majority' of the smaller- income people have no opportunity op-portunity of pleading poverty. They are people with salaries; and the income in-come tax man has access to the telltale tell-tale wages list. But the millionaire is not a salaried man. For the most part he pays on an assessment provided by himself, and the above qudfed figures "give one to think." Down the scale the numbers gradually grad-ually increase until of incomes between be-tween 160 and 200 there are no fewer few-er than 138,456, while of smaller incomes in-comes not exempt from taxation there are 112,397. But there is one singular exception to this steady gradation. There are comparatively few incomes of between 800 and 900, the number being 1,989 in Great Britain, . whereas the figures immediately above and below are 3,935 and 2,641. |