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Show IMS FIRMS : Ft TO HE ; TiEITIi WASHINGTON'. April 21. Despitr ' ihe government's wartime appeal for ipx payments as a patriotic doty, more than 300,000 firms and individuals failed fail-ed to make -honest returns under the jevenue laws In the Inst two years,' the bureau-of internal revenue an-( inounced tonight. In a six months' dive, which ended February first, $19,- 031,000 in delinquent income and lux ' !y taxes were collected, Commissions'" Commission-s'" Williams reported. I "The amazingly large number" of j persons who did not respond to the I t- nvernmenl's appeal has caused treas-! i vy officials 10 consider the delinquent tax payment problem a grave one. A now roundup of alleged delinquents has been instituted to cover the tax period on which returns were made-! i larch 15th. . ! |