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Show Informers Are Paid The Treasury of the United States collected a little more than $1,000,000 last year as a result of information passed on by individuals who reported somebody else for not paying proper income taxes to the government. gov-ernment. In return for the information that they gave, the tipsters received re-ceived about $55,000. In the last decade, the Government has distributed dis-tributed more than $600,000 to tipsters for information leading to tax collections which amounted amount-ed to more than $21,000,000. The figures indicate that the informers got about three per cent of the total amount collected collect-ed by the Government. It seems that the Government is much more liberal with those who give it information in regard to the importation of goods from foreign for-eign countries without the payment pay-ment of duties. If our information informa-tion is correct, the tipster, in customs cus-toms cases, receives an amount equal to the duties which the Government collects. The Treasury Department reports re-ports that very few informers col-leect col-leect fees for information about income taxes more than once. Most of them are former employes, em-ployes, who turn in ex-bosses, I and the next most numerous j class of informers are persons who turn in members of their 'own families because of jealous-y, jealous-y, hatred or spite. |