Show Rumblings of Approaching Congress Session Heard By Taxpayers axa s With 1 1 Misgivings Joint Committee ommittee to Begin Work Vork Monday on Proposed Simplification of Revenue Laws Taxation and Tariff Next for Consideration By Dy HARDEN COLFAX X Special Correspondent of The Standard Examiner r Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association WASHINGTON Oct With 22 22 With the Joint congressional committee on n In Internal in- in internal Internal revenue taxation and a sub sub- subcommittee subcommittee committee on the ways and means committee scheduled to begin sessions Monday rumblings of the approach approach- approachIng Ing session of congress soon will de develop de- de develop develop into a definite roar The taxpayer may well ell view these preparations with mixed emotions for lor while several of the committees meet meet- meeting meetIng ing tag In advance of congress will con con- consider consider sider alder receipts of public funds runGs others will consider expenditures Tax re reduction re- re reduction reduction and simplification and cus ens- customs customs toms revision will not occupy the spot- spot spotlight light without some degree of compe- compe Z on from the outgo twins wins t appropriations appropriations and authorizations INCOME I IE CO SITU SITUATION J It Is the Income situation that will get the Jump on expenditures in the hearings however howe The Joint con con- congressional congressional congressional gressional committee Is slated to begin consideration of ot a report of simpli simpli- simplification simplification of the revenue re laws on Monday Mon Mon- day following work by its advisory ad experts during the long recess Then the report will be submitted to the ways was and means committee which Is scheduled to meet October 31 for lor ten teD teDda's days das of public hearings on tax rates and administrative provisions The house appropriations committee commute will begin Its labors on November 15 with the chairman already having given given en fair notice notice that that he will resist in increased In- In Increased increased creased expenditures excepting fo for causes whose merits are demonstrated conclusively The flood control committee of th the house has been called for November 7 to determine a new policy of pro pro- protecting protecting lands menaced by water anc and to start work on a bill blU to authorize expenditures to mike mke a new policy ef et- et teethe fecU It is not expected that tho the joint Join committee on internal revenue taxa taxa- taxation taxation tion will be able to complete all of its work by October 31 but worried tax tax- taxpayers payers may maylInd find some consolation In Inthe Inthe inthe the fact that its members appear con con- dent suggestions will be submitted which if adopted will simplify to some degree at least a few lew of the In In- In Intricacies intricacies of the revenue law Out of ot the hearings beginning Mon Mon- Monday Monday day before the ways and means sub sub- subcommittee subcommittee committee on customs procedure and personnel will come suggestions fo for changes In the administrative administrate section action of 01 the tariff law Jaw which would affect revenues at the ports as well as Ing ng highly important to the ot of f the customs service TARIFF REVISIONS For instance the treasury depart depart- department department department ment desires that certain adminis- adminis administrative administrative provisions of the the- tariff tanH act be revised to conform to modern modem condi- condi lons court decisions and other factors Influencing changes Some borne of these provisions revisions are ancient and cannot be enforced Congress usually devotes its time Ime In debating tariff tAnH bills to questions Ques- Ques Questions lons of rates of duty and then rushes through the highly Important sec sec- sections sections sections with little consideration taking most of them bodily from prior acts The drawback provision by which 99 per cent of the duty paid on an Im Importation Im- Im Importation importation shall be refunded if II it is exported re-exported after having been pro pro- produced produced produced or manufactured in this coun coun- country country try costs around 15 a year of funds deposited in the treasury and is the he subject of wide controversy contro Cus- Cus Customs Customs toms oms officials desire that this be tightened so liO as to close cloe loopholes whereby the section may be used ns us usa a means of getting rid of merchandise MARKING MARRING RULES nULES The country of origin marking mar pro pro- provision provision vision whereby every article Imported must b bear bar ar the name of ef the country whence It comes originally unless uness to toso toso toso so mark it would injure the merchandise merchandise dise will mil be discusser discussed dl cusse Greater Great r dis die discretion discretion crellon Is desired by the treasury In order 1 r to t ta avoid a I absurdities r U It Is pros pro able also o that t ft the suggestion will be made that the penalty penally for failure to 10 mark should be reduced below the present figure of 10 per cent ent of 01 the there regular re duty Importers probably v have cc- cc rable to say about these and the theother theother other are 01 on the treasury's program The Th same sub suK will probably probably probably ably consider consider- consider erd In Its Pits first flut t hear hear- hearIngs Ings Ings pleas for revision cf of the he salary s and classification Ilca schedules of th the customs service fenlee What the lull wars ard means com com- committee committee will determine as to the extent both as to money mony and direction that tha tax reduction will take remains to b be determined Definite estimates from the treasury will be presented soon and then the battle will be carried canted into the open on the basis of these thes calculations and the figures of th the budget bureau as IS to 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