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Show United States Will Force Payment. Only 1,500,000 Subject to Assessment Washington, June 27. The treasury treas-ury department has placed 2000 special spe-cial Inspectors on the trail of rich, men who have been dodging the In-como In-como tax. It Intends to collect both the Income In-come tax and tho percentage penalties penal-ties for delinquents. It plans to sn-forco sn-forco tho fines and Jail sentences for those who wilfully attempt to cheat tho government. There Is $23,250,000 being held out of tho treasury by tax dodgers, according ac-cording to tho official estimate. It wob oxpected that the new law would ralso $54,000,000. Up to date tho revenuo from this source is only $3O,7G0,000. Up to dato only hbout 700.000 peoplo peo-plo nro Included In the list of Income tax payers. It was estimated that at least 1,500,000 persons wouTd havo to pay the tax.- . 8howt Where Money Is Tho roturns again emphaslzo the fact that big Incomes are enjoyed by a very small per cent of the popula-, t!on. . According to tho table compiled by the treasury experts there-are: 20 Incomes of $10,000,000. and over. 100 Incomes of $1,000,000 to $10 000,000. 500 Incomes of $500,000 to $1,000,000 2000 Incomes of $100,000 to $500,-000. $500,-000. 10,000 Incomes of $50,000 to $100,-000. $100,-000. 21,000 incomes of $30,000 to $50,000. 75,000 Incomes of $20,000 to $30,000. 100,000 Incomes of $10,000 to $20,-000. |