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Show TRAILING OF JEJI DOGERS Government Launches Nation Wide Campaign In. Effort to Bring Results Re-sults Nearer Estimates Washington, Nov 11. Officials of tho treasury department nro Becking to lay tho groundwork of a xigoro'us nnd nation wldo campaign for tho detection of Income tax dodgers and tho collection of unpaid taxes wliicli somo authorities believe may mount Into millions. Tho effort is directed pnrtlculaily , against persons who are stockholders stockhold-ers and drawers of dividends from corporations. If any plan Is adopted adopt-ed to lnstltuto n thorough search of tholr lists of shoreholders and tho rorords of tholr dividends, It will bo most exhaustive and may tnko years. For tho present It .Is understood under-stood to bo tho hopo of officials that tho corporations will furnish this in formation upon request. Since tho first returns from tho In-como In-como tn wero totaled thoro has been no concenlmont of tho fact thnt treasury officials wero disappointed. Tho tax collected fell many millions liolow what was oxpected. Tho est: mates of taxnblo individuals on whlcn Congress framed tho law wero far at variance from tho figures returned return-ed by intornnl levenuo collectors Tho dlfferenco between tho returns nnd estlmntes was over tho 100.0UU mark. This was not taken to menu that thoro wbro actually so ninny tnxablPB In tho country who had evaded tho law, hut allowing for a wldo margin of miscalculation, officials offic-ials are inclined to crodlt tho belief that thoro must bo many cases of unpaid taxes. |